Medievalists.net » Jan van Eyck http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Northern Renaissance? Burgundy And Netherlandish Art In Fifteenth-Century Europe http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/25/northern-renaissance-burgundy-netherlandish-art-fifteenth-century-europe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/25/northern-renaissance-burgundy-netherlandish-art-fifteenth-century-europe/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2014 07:44:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52127 Everyone who has studied medieval or modern history knows that the periodisation of the eras on either side of the Renaissance provides much food for thought. This contribution aims irst to address the usefulness of the widespread concept of the ‘Northern Renaissance’.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/25/northern-renaissance-burgundy-netherlandish-art-fifteenth-century-europe/feed/ 0 The Art of the Science of Renaissance Painting http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/22/the-art-of-the-science-of-renaissance-painting/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/22/the-art-of-the-science-of-renaissance-painting/#comments Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:54:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34027 During this study we began to examine paintings for the presence of optical artifacts that could serve as supporting scientific evidence for these visual observations. Here we briefly describe some of the scientific evidence contained within three paintings that demonstrate lenses were in use by certain artists to project images as early as c1425. We present only a general discussion here, and refer interested readers to previous publications for details.

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