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ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN 1400-1464 The one TRUE Renaissance Idol Renaissance Ideal-Individualism (portraits) • Painting everyday people and not just religious images The Jeweler Portrait of a young lady in a pinned hat Renaissance Ideal – Individualism (fame) • Flanders artist (Netherlands) whose art was appreciated in Italy as well. • 1436 moved to Brussels and was appointed official painter to the city. • Had a large workshop with numerous assistants and students • Many of his compositions are known in several versions. • His influence was strong and widespread as his emotional/dramatic style found many followers/imitators Renaissance Ideal – Realism (perspective/emotion) • He was extremely inventive with his compositions, and was a master of depicting human emotion. • The 3-dimentional depth of the outdoors through the window and the elegant bed, show the type of perspective use that was key to the realism of Renaissance art. The Decent from the Cross • Even in his religious art he was unapologetic as he showed his secularism with the human tragedy of the cross • In this excerpt from The Last Judgment he captures emotion, as well as the ideal of secularism in his inclusion of nude figures in Pergatory. VOTE Rogier Van der Weyden • The beauty and spiritual intensity his work made his painting accessible to succeeding generations of Flemish artists as well as Italian artist (mimic). • A famous humanists called him "the glory among painters“ National Gallery London • A Catholic cardinal called him "the greatest of artists“ National Gallery London The one TRUE Renaissance Idol Citations (those not used in paper) • http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/weyden/ • http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Roger_van_der_Weyden.aspx • The Independent. “The Critics: Exhibitions: Minor? He was huge in the 15th century Rogier van der Weyden”. National Gallery London. 21 March 1999.