Early Renaissance Art in Northern Europe

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The New Realism in painting and sculpture and its relationship to devotional practices, political policies, and social life in the Netherlands, France, and Germany from the fourteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Major artists: the Limbourg Brothers, Van Eyck, Van der Goes, Sluter. Major works: theTres Riches Heures, the Ghent Altarpiece, and the Arnolfini Wedding. (Not open to students who have completed Art 19.3 or 19.6.)