Jan Van Eyck

     Jan van Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painter who lived  in Bruges. He is often considered one of the founders of Early Netherlandish painting and one of the most significant representatives of Northern Renaissance art. The materials he used were oil paints.  Van Eyck has painted many religious commissions and portraits of Burgundian courtiers, local nobles, churchmen, and merchants. After looking at this painting closely, I can obviously tell that this painting is of a couple. The woman is pregnant and they probabaly want the child because the man is holding the woman’s hand which symbolizes his care for her. 

Giotto

      Giotto was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic or Proto-Renaissance period. The painting that I viewed had a weird form of perspective. The angels at the top particularly stood out for me. Some were pointed almost completely down. I’ve never seen that angle used in anything before. Some were also pointed up. I have seen something like that before. One person also had his arms completely spread out which seemed strange to me. I can’t figure out why.