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Northern Europe and
Spain in the 16th
century
a most unusual painting....
and the end of the Burgundian Netherlands
Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights triptych open position, oil/wood; 78" x 88"; c. 1500
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Religious context:
*the Protestant Reformation: 1500-1517
*Luther posts his 95 Theses in 1517:
Can salvation be bought or earned, or is it
the result of faith?
*Idolatry and iconoclasm
a different role for images in Catholic and
Protestant churches
Dutch artists: the
complexity of vision
Quentin
Massys:
Banker and his
Wife
1514, oil on
wood, 2' 3-3/4"
x 2' 2"
Pieter Aertsen: Butcher's Stall (Meat Market), 1551
oil on canvas, 4'1 x 6'6"
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Pieter Bruegel: Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559, oil/panel,
46" x 64"
Joachim Patinir: Landscape with Saint Jerome
c. 1520-1524, oil on wood, 74 x 91 cm
Hunters in the Snow, 1565, oil on wood, 3'10 x 5'4
Artists of the Holy Roman
Empire:
Altdorfer, Cranach, Durer, Grien,
Grunewald, Holbein
Lucas Cranach the Elder: Last Judgment Triptych,
ca. 1524, 1526-27, oil on limewood, 163 x 125 cm
Albrecht Altdorfer:
Battle of Alexander
(Battle of Issus)
1529, oil on wood, 52
1/4 x 47 1/4"
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Altdorfer:
Landscape on
the Danube near
Regensburg
oil on vellum on
panel, 12" x 9"
ca. 1525
Matthias Grunewald:
Isenheim Altarpiece:
1. closed position
c.1512-15, oil/wood, 9'9 x 10'9 (center panel)
a Catholic work, made for a monastic
hospital
2nd open position, with shrine (carved by Nikolaus
Hagenauer, Painted and gilt limewood, 9’ 9 1/2” x 10’ 9”
Albrecht Durer: "Leonardo of the North"
*Travelled widely through Europe and became an
international celebrity
*At least two visits to Italy to study Renaissance art
*synthesis of Northern European stylistic features
(intricate detail, realistic rendering of objects, gothic
symbolism) and Italian features (classical body types,
linear perspective)
*kept a thorough record of his life (self-portraits,
treatises on his thoughts, and a diary)
*best known for his engravings
*brought the first lawsuit against another artist
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The Fall of Man
(Adam and Eve)
Melencolia I
1514
Albrecht Dürer, 1504
engraving, 9-7/8" x 75/8"
engraving, 9-7/8" x
7-5/8"
Self-Portrait in a FurTrimmed Coat
1500, oil on
limewood, 26" x 20"
Four Apostles
1526
oil/panel
a cult of Durer?
a cult of portraits?
215x152cm.
Hans Holbein:
Erasmus of
Rotterdam
1523
16" x 12"
Hans Baldung Grien: Death
Witches' Sabbath
and the Maiden, 1510,
1510, 15" x 10"; chiaroscuro
oil/wood, 19 x 13"
woodcut
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Holbein:
French
Ambassador
s, 1533, 6'8
x 6'9"
[with an
anamorphic
skull]
Levina Teerlinc:
Elizabeth I as a
Princess, ca. 1559,
oil on wood, 3'7 x
2'8
Caterina van
Hemessen: SelfPortrait, 1548, oil on
wood,12" x 9-7/8"
-----Port. of Lady
SPAIN
El Greco
[Domenikos Theotokopoulos]
Byzantine, Italian mannerism, and a look ahead to the
baroque
El Greco: Burial
of the Count of
Orgaz
1586-88
oil on canvas
16' x 12'
Adoration of the Name of
Jesus (The Dream of Felipe
II), c. 1579, o/c, 56 x 44 in.
View of Toledo, o/c,
47 3/4 x 42 3/4 in., c. 1610
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