Medieval art
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The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, with over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at certain periods in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It includes major art mo
Byzantine Church mosaics, Monreale, Sicily, late 12th century
Detail of The Effects of Good Government, a fresco in the City Hall of Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338.
Scenes of courtly love on a lady's ivory mirror-case. Paris, 1300–1330.
The jewelled cover of the Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram, c. 870, a Carolingian Gospel book.
Early Netherlandish painting
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Early Netherlandish painting is the body of work by artists active in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance period, once known as the Flemish P
Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, National Gallery, London
Rogier van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross, c. 1435, Museo del Prado, Madrid
The Ghent Altarpiece, completed in 1432 by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. This polyptych and the Turin-Milan Hours are generally seen as the first major works of the Early Netherlandish period.
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1490–1510. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Art historians are divided as to whether the central panel was intended as a moral warning or as a panorama of paradise lost.