Writing Assignment | Northern Europe 1300 – early 1400s – nursing homework essays

WRITING ASSIGNMENT
Total length of this assignment: 1-3 pages
Homework on SHORT TALKS
For each of the four SHORT TALKS, describe one idea and say why it is important.  
Also, for each of the four SHORT TALKS, pick one artwork, identify it (artist, title, date), and say what is special about it.

Jan van Eyck
Hubert van Eyck and Jan van Eyck The Ghent Altarpiece, 1432
Petrus Christus
Rogier van der Weyden

Homework on Reading
Reading: Nicholas of Cusa, De docta ignorantia (On Learned Ignorance) (1440)
Assignment: Describe the paradoxical features of Nicholas of Cusa’s infinite sphere. Why did Nicholas like this idea?