Northern Renaissance

its in the details

STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

• realism and detail of objects
• early use of oil paint
• use of symbolism
  • especially of daily objects having other
  • often religious meaning
• comparison with Renaissance in South:
  • less humanism
  • less interest in classical objects and architecture
  • traditional subject matter
  • perspective
    • often not single-point perspective
    • flattening out of surfaces
    • contortions of figures
  • emphasis on line

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Robert Campin (The Master of Flemalle) The Annunciation, with St. Joseph and Donors The Merode Altarpiece Cloisters, New York 1425-1428
Jan van Eyck Man in a Red Turban National Gallery, London 1433
Jan van Eyck Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride The Arnolfini Wedding National Gallery, London 1434
Jan van Eyck The Virgin with the Canon George van der Paele Communal Museum, Bruges 1435
Rogier van der Weyden The Escorial Deposition Prado, Madrid 1435
Rogier van der Weyden Portrait of a Lady National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1460
Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych Garden of Earthly Delights, Creation of Eve, and Hell Prado, Madrid 1505-1510
Jan Gossaert (Mabuse) Neptune and Amphitrite Gemaldegalerie, Berlin 1516
Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Peasant Dance Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1567
Pieter Bruegel the Elder Hunters in the Snow Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1565
Martin Schongauer St. Anthony Tormented by the Demons engraving 1480-1490
Albrecht Durer The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse woodcut 1498
Albrecht Durer Adam and Eve engraving 1504
Albrecth Durer The Four Apostles Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1526
Albrecht Durer Hieronymus Holzschuher Gemldegalerie, Berlin 1526
Albrecht Durer The Great Piece of Turf watercolor Albertina, Vienna 1503
Matthias Grunewald Crucifixion from the Isenheim Altarpiece Musee d'Unterlinden, Colmar 1510-1515
Albrecht Altdorfer The Battle of Issus Alexander vs Darius Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1529
Lucas Cranach The Judgement of Paris Metropolitan Museum, New York 1528

VOCAB

disguised symbolism
Romanists

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