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A 4 page research paper that analyzes Jan Van Eyck's Crucifixion and Las Judgement. Jan Van Eyck (1395-1441) was a Flemish painter who, along with Robert Campin, is credited with founding the Ars Nova ("new art") movement of the late fifteenth century, a movement that heralded the Renaissance in northern Europe. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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century, a movement that heralded the Renaissance in northern Europe (Van Eyck, Jan, 2004). This period in Flemish art is characterized by a "naturalistic style of vivid oil colors, meticulous
detail, accurately rendered textures and the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface" (Van Eyck, Jan, 2004). Jan van Eycks Crucifixion and Last Judgement is a diptych, that
is, a painting on two panels, and it provides a stunning visual "epic in miniature" (Perl, 1998). It is a tall, narrow painting--72 by 3 inches--yet each panel teems with
figures who are either "sunk in wickedness or overcome with grief" (Perl, 1998). There is no apparent end to the detail that Van Eyck presents. In fact, the work is
fantastically complex that Perl (1998) comments that, in this work, Van Eyck solves some sort of impossible physics problems, as there is "more volume, more air, more light than the
paintings actual dimensions should be able to hold." Despite its complexity, however, the plethora of details depicted in this work does not close the work down. Rather these details
bewitch viewers, drawing them into the scene. For example, the earth in the foreground is to realistically depicted that viewers feel they can "touch the rocky, dusty terrain" and this
is simply the "launching pad for an awesomely stark drama" (Perl, 1998). In the foreground on the Crucifixion panel, heavily draped women gather around the Virgin, and each figure is
a "masterpiece of concentrated, almost microscopic, sculptural grandeur" (Perl, 1998). Marys head is bowed in sorrow, but the significance of the figure is clear because of the manner in which
the other womens attentions are focused on her. Also, the significance of this figure is indicated by the rich, royal blue of her robe, which contrasts sharply against the black
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