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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.