(S2 E2) Van Eyck and the North, 1420-1450 | A Narrative Art History of the Renaissance

In this episode: Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, and their contemporaries.

This spring, “A Narrative Art History of the Renaissance" returns for a second season. Season 2 will take you through the 15th century, covering the period 1420 to 1500 in seven chapters - tracing the birth and development of the Renaissance in Italy, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, and beyond.

This series aims to present Renaissance art in coherent context rather than as a disconnected collection of facts and artworks to be memorized. The focus here is not on individual artworks - although in-depth analyses of specific works are featured, too - but on the bigger picture of the Renaissance, foregrounding cross-cultural influences and artistic dialogues. It requires little to no background in art history.

0:00 E1 recap, E2 intro
2:14 Jan van Eyck and Hubert van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece
International Gothic
7:27 Jan van Eyck (Hand G?), Turin-Milan Hours
9:35 Jan van Eyck, Self-Portrait (?)
11:00 Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
12:24 Rogier van der Weyden, Jean Wauquelin presentation miniature
13:17 Spoon made for Philip the Good
15:00 Burgundian nobility
Gaston Phoebus, Book of the Hunt
16:00 The Cloisters playing cards
18:36 Chivalry: Book of Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing
Burgundian bourgeoisie & the merchant economy
Devotio moderna
23:35 Workshop of Robert Campin, Mérode Altarpiece
29:00 Triptych in metal
30:13 Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait
36:34 Jan van Eyck, Annunciation
39:14 Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in His Shop
42:24 Rogier van der Weyden, Descent from the Cross
47:23 Rogier van der Weyden, Crucifixion Diptych
49:30 Enguerrand Quarton, Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
52:58 Pisanello, Vision of St. Eustace
57:00 E3 preview

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