<p>ART 2 Chapter 15: NORTHERN EUROPE 1400-1500</p><p>1. What are some of the factors that contributed to the development of cities in the fifteenth century?</p><p>2. Who were the most powerful rulers in Northern Europe during the fifteenth century?</p><p>3. How was an intense interest in the natural world seen in art outside of Italy? What other traditional art form is this combined with?</p><p>4. What is a Book of Hours?</p><p>5. Name the artists who illuminated Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.</p><p>6. What types of scenes did they paint for the famous Calendar pages?</p><p>7. During the 14th and 15th centuries, the courts of France (Berry, Burgundy, etc.) were the greatest patrons of art done in the International Gothic style. What elements characterize that style?</p><p>8. What painting technique did fifteenth-century Northern painters perfect? Briefly describe the technique.</p><p>9. Describe the imagery of the Merode Altarpiece? Who painted it? What did the candle, water jug, book, lilies, bench, and towels symbolize? 10. What purpose does “disguised symbolism” serve?</p><p>11. What effect did the blending of the sacred and secular have on the way devotional images were painted?</p><p>12. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece? What is the general theme and what other subjects and symbols appear?</p><p>13. What was the probable purpose of the painting Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride?</p><p>14. List four symbols contained in the painting and give their meanings:</p><p>15. In contrast to the complex symbolism of Jan van Eyck, what did Rogier van der Weyden stress in his paintings? What are the characteristics of his style?</p><p>16. How is this seen in his painting The Deposition? </p><p>17. Who painted and who commissioned The Portinari Altarpiece? Where was it displayed?</p><p>18. What is some of its symbolic content?</p><p>19. List 2 features of Jean Fouquet’s panel that are similar to other Flemish works of art.</p>