ARTT2102

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ARTT2102 TUTORIAL WEEK 7
NARRATIVE DISGUISED SYMBOLISM?
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Jan van Eyck (c.1395-1441), Giovanni di Nicolao
Arnolfini and Costanza Trenta Arnolfini, 1434.
Oil on panel, 82.2 x 60 cm. Collection National
Gallery, London
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Perspective analysis of the Arnolfini Portrait by
James Elkins. From Did Jan van Eyck have a
perspective system?, The Art Bulletin, 731
(March 1991), 53-62.
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• Issues
• Identification of the couple
• What is taking place?
• What is the symbolism of the various objects?
• What evidence is used by each author?
• What do you find convincing and why?
• Criteria for deciding most reliable explanation?

Jan van Eyck (c.1395-1441), Giovanni di Nicolao
Arnolfini and Costanza Trenta Arnolfini, 1434.
Oil on panel, 82.2 x 60 cm. Collection National
Gallery, London
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Roman Funerary Relief with dextrarum iunctio,
c.140-150 AD. Museo Ostiense, Rome
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Roman Funerary Relief with dextrarum iunctio,
160-180 AD. British Museum, London
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Johann von Holtzhausen and his wife, Cathedral,
Frankfurt-on-Main
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St Margaret triumphing over the Dragon
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Jan van Eyck, Triptych with the Virgin and Child,
St George and a Donor, and St Catherine, 1437.
Oil on panel, 33.1 x 54.7 cm. Gemäldegalerie,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden. Note the
inscriptions and marbling on the frames
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Rogier van der Weyden, Altar of the Seven
Sacraments right wing and DETAIL (right), c.1445
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Rogier van der Weyden, Altar of the Seven
Sacraments left wing, c.1445, and DETAIL
(above)
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Johann von Holtzhausen and his wife, Cathedral,
Frankfurt-on-Main
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Petrus Christus (c.1410-1475/76), Holy Family,
c.1470. Oil on panel, 69.5 x 50.8 cm.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
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Jan van Eyck (1390/95-1441), Madonna with
Chancellor Nicolas Rolin (Virgin of Autin),
c.1435. Oil on panel, 66 x 62 cm. Louvre Museum,
Paris
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Jan van Eyck, Madonna of the Canon van der Paele,
1434-36. Oil on panel, 140.8 x 176.5 cm.
Groeninge-museum, Bruges. Inscriptions on the
frame state that Donation now enjoys the glory
of God and that George has triumphed over death
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Nikolaus Gerhaert von Leyden (active c.1462-73),
Epitaph of Conrad von Busang (?), 1464.
Strasbourg Cathedral
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Johann von Holtzhausen and his wife, Cathedral,
Frankfurt-on-Main
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• Mirror with eight roundels with scenes from the
  Passion of Christ and two with scenes after the
  Crucifixion.
• Beginning at bottom
• Agony in Garden
• Arrest of Christ
• Christ before Pilate
• Flagellation
• Christ carrying the cross
• Crucifixion
• Descent from the cross
• Entombment
• Harrowing of Hell
• Resurrection

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Robert Campin (attributed) (probably Master of
Flémalle) (c.1375/80-1444) or follower , Virgin
and Child before a firescreen, c.1440. Oil with
egg tempera on oak with walnut additions 63.4 x
48.5 cm. Collection National Gallery, London
(right) and detail (above)
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Robert Campin and assistant, Mérode Altarpiece
(Annunciation Triptych), c.1425. Oil on wood.
Metropolitan Museum, New York City, Cloisters
Collection
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Jan Provost, Virgin and Child, c.1495-1500. Oil
on panel, 31.1 x 17.1 cm. The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York
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Robert Campin and assistant, Mérode Altarpiece
(Annunciation Triptych), c.1425. Oil on wood.
Metropolitan Museum, New York City, Cloisters
Collection
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Jan van Eyck and workshop, Crucifixion, c.1430.
Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 56.5 x 19.7
cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Gerard David (active 1484-1523), The Lamentation,
c.1515-20. Oil on panel, 87 x 65.1 cm.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Hugo van der Goes, The Portinari Triptych,
1475-77. Collection Uffizi Gallery, Florence
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