The World's Greatest Paintings

Acts of Faith - Masaccio, Van Eyck, Van der Weyden (1x3)

Data de estreia: Jan 01, 2010

This lecture traces landmark religious imagery in 15th-century painting. Define Masaccio's narrative ability in two biblical fresco scenes from the Brancacci Chapel. Then discover Jan van Eyck's brilliant melding of realistic portraiture and sacred images in Madonna of the Canon van der Paele, and the emotional intensity and compositional richness of Rogier van der Weyden's Deposition of Christ.