NE Spain 16th cent.prs
Northern Europe and
Spain: the High
Renaissance and
Mannerism
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
Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights triptych open position, oil/wood; 78" x 88"; c. 1500
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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"
Jesus Carrying the Cross (The Way to
Calvary), 1564
Hunters in the Snow, 1565, oil on wood, 3'10 x 5'4
Artists of the Holy Roman
Empire:
Altdorfer, Durer, Grien,
Grunewald, Holbein
Albrecht Altdorfer:
Battle of Alexander
(Battle of Issus)
1529, oil on wood, 52
1/4 x 47 1/4"
Altdorfer:
Landscape on
the Danube near
Regensburg
oil on vellum on
panel, 12" x 9"
ca. 1525
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Grunewald:
Isenheim Altarpiece:
1. closed position
c.1512-15, oil/wood, 9'9 x 10'9 (center panel)
2. 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
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"
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Self-Portrait in a FurTrimmed Coat
1500, oil on
limewood, 26" x 20"
a cult of Durer?
a cult of portraits?
Hans Baldung Grien: Death
Witches' Sabbath
and the Maiden, 1510,
1510, 15" x 10"; chiaroscuro
oil/wood, 19 x 13"
woodcut
Hans Holbein:
Erasmus of
Rotterdam
1523
16" x 12"
Caterina van
Hemessen: SelfPortrait, 1548, oil on
wood,
12" x 9-7/8"
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
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Colegio of San
Gregorio: portal
Spain: Plateresque style
1486-92
Valladolid (Spain)
[silversmith: platero]
El Escorial
(Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo)
near Madrid
El Escorial, (Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo)
near Madrid, Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de
Herrera, ca. 1563-1584
Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de
Herrera, ca. 1563-1584
Pierre Lescot: Palais du Louvre, west wing, Cour Carrée,
(Square Court), 1546-1578
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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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