Art Guide
Hans Memling, St. John Altar (c. 1479, detail) © Musea Brugge / artinflanders.be (photo: Hugo Maertens)
The 14th and 15th centuries brought about important innovations both in music and the visual arts. In his Online Art Guide, Peter Phillips takes you on a tour of some of the greatest artworks of the Renaissance and shows remarkable parallels between music and painting. Sound on!
Introduction
Jan van Eyck The Ghent Altar (detail) 1432, oil on wood St. Bavo Cathedral, Ghent © artinflanders.be (photo: Hugo Maertens, Dominique Provost)
Master of St. Magdalene
Virgin and Child Enthroned c. 1280–90, tempera and gold leaf on poplar Gemäldegalerie, Berlin © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (photo: Christoph Schmidt)
Unknown Artist
Virgin and Child Enthroned c. 1130, mosaic Hagia Sophia, Istanbul photo © Dr. Evan Freeman (released under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Deodato Orlandi
Two Wings of a Triptych c. 1300–10, tempera and gold leaf on poplar Gemäldegalerie, Berlin © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (photo: Christoph Schmidt)
Giotto di Bondone I
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (Ognissanti Madonna) c. 1310, tempera and gold leaf on wood Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence © Galleria delle Statue e delle Pitture degli Uffizi, Inv. 1890 No. 8344. Reproduced with kind permission by the Ministero della Cultura.
Bernardo Daddi
Altarpiece (Triptych) c. 1338–40, tempera and gold leaf on poplar Gemäldegalerie, Berlin © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (photo: Jörg P. Anders)
Francesco da Rimini
Vision of the Blessed Clare of Rimini c. 1333–40, tempera and gold leaf on wood National Gallery, London photo © The National Gallery, London / akg images
Taddeo Gaddi
St. Francis Appears to a Child c. 1335, tempera and gold leaf on poplar Gemäldegalerie, Berlin © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (photo: Christoph Schmidt)
Giotto di Bondone II
The Mourning of Christ c. 1305, fresco Scrovegni Chapel, Padua photo © Dr. Steven Zucker (released under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Giotto di Bondone III
The Kiss of Judas c. 1305, fresco Scrovegni Chapel, Padua photo © Dr. Steven Zucker (released under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Paolo Uccello
The Battle of San Romano c. 1438–40, tempera on wood National Gallery, London photo © akg images / Erich Lessing
Filippo Brunelleschi
Portrait from Giorgio Vasari’s “Le vite de più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti” 1568, woodcut photo © akg images / Rabatti & Domingie
Filippo Brunelleschi
Pazzi Chapel, Florence c. 1430 photos © Dr. Steven Zucker (released under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Architectural Perspective (Ideal City) c. 1492, oil on poplar Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (Kaiser-Friedrich-Museumsverein) © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (photo: Jörg P. Anders)
Masaccio
Trinità c. 1427, fresco Santa Maria Novella, Florence photo © Graham Fellows
Giovanni di Paolo
St. Jerome Appears to St. Augustine c. 1465, tempera on poplar Gemäldegalerie, Berlin © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (photo: Jörg P. Anders)
Masaccio
The Payment of the Tribute Money c. 1426–27, fresco Brancacci Chapel, Florence photo © Graham Fellows
Pietro Perugino
The Delivery of the Keys 1482, fresco Sistine Chapel, Vatican Vatican Museums (photo © Eric Vandeville / akg images)
Raphael
The Marriage of the Virgin (Lo Sposalizio) 1504, oil on wood © Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Jan van Eyck
The Ghent Altar 1432, oil on wood St. Bavo Cathedral, Ghent © artinflanders.be (photo: Hugo Maertens, Dominique Provost)
Andrea Mantegna
The Agony in the Garden c. 1455–58, tempera on wood National Gallery, London © The National Gallery, London / akg images Excerpt from Guillaume Dufay: Missa L’homme armé, recorded by Oxford Camerata & Jeremy Summerly, courtesy of NAXOS Germany
Hugo van der Goes
The Adoration of the Kings c. 1470, oil on poplar Gemäldegalerie, Berlin © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (photo: Dietmar Gunne)
Hans Memling I
Virgin and Child Enthroned c. 1465–1505, oil on oak Gemäldegalerie, Berlin © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (photo: Christoph Schmidt)
Carlo Crivelli
Dead Christ Supported by Two Putti late 1470s, tempera and gold leaf on wood Philadelphia Museum of Art © The John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, cat. no. 158
Gerard David
The Lamentation of Christ c. 1515–23, oil on wood National Gallery, London © The National Gallery, London / akg images
Simon Marmion
Scenes from the Life of St. Bertin 1459, oil on oak Gemäldegalerie, Berlin © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (photo: Christoph Schmidt)
Rogier van der Weyden
St. John Altarpiece c. 1450–64, oil on oak Gemäldegalerie, Berlin © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (photo: Christoph Schmidt)
Hans Memling II
St. John Altarpiece c. 1479, oil on wood Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges © Musea Brugge / artinflanders.be (photo: Hugo Maertens)
