Art 2 2nd sem week 5

In fifteenth century Northern Europe, most painters continued to work in

the traditions of ______________ art.

• Symbolism

• oil paints

• emotional appeal

• Medieval

With ______________artists could produce a smooth glaze that

would give more brilliance to the colors in their paintings.

• oil paints

• acrylic paints

• watercolor paints

• tempra paints

Van der Goes tipped up the floor in The Adoration of the Shepherds to give

the observer a better _____________ .

• emotional appeal

• view

• Symbolism

• details

Unlike the Italian artists who worked in fresco, the Northern European

artists who used oil paints had more time to add _________________to

their work.

• Symbolism

• emotional appeal

• details

• shallow space

In the Descent from the Cross, van der Weyden used ____________

to force the viewer to focus on the drama of the scene.

• details

• shallow space

• Symbolism

•  shoe

_________is credited with the invention of the oil painting

technique.

• Van Eyck

• Van Gogh

• Rober Campin

• Giovanni Arnolfini

___________was important in Gothic art and, later, in Northern

European art as well.

• Van Eyck

• details

• Symbolism

• emotional appeal

The _____________ in The Adoration of the Shepherds reminds

viewers that the event depicted in the painting makes the ground on which

it takes place holy.

• shoe

•  lamb

• shallow space

• Medieval

In the Adoration of the Lamb the figures are arranged so that the__________

is emphasized as the center of interest.

• details

• shoe

• view

• lamb

Even though it made his works seem less realistic, van der Goes often

altered space if he thought that doing so would increase the _____________

of his works.

• emotional appeal

• details

• symbolism

• view