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Hands-on Clinic => Art => Topic started by: Mollykgkg on Feb 2, 2021
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Question 1
Describe how Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait demonstrates the ways that Northern European Renaissance art is different from Italian Renaissance art.
Question 2
Discuss the controversy surrounding the Paolo Veronese's Feast in the House of Levi.
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Answer 1
The ideal answer should include:
1. Unlike Italian Renaissance art, which was commissioned for religious buildings and portrayed figures with Classical forms, Northern Renaissance artists, such as Jan van Eyck, depicted the realism of secular figures, ordinary objects, and the natural world.
2. For example, in The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck carefully renders the details of textures and the individualized, physical likenesses of two subjects to create a window into the world of Northern Europe.
Answer 2
The ideal answer should include:
1. Paolo Veronese's painting depicts the traditional subject of Christ's last supper with his disciples, but also portrays sumptuous food, drunken figures, and opulent displays of wealth.
2. The Inquisition considered the subject matter heretical and ordered Veronese to alter the painting to conform to religious standards, but Veronese ultimately retitled the painting so that it appeared to depict a secular subject.
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