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Northern Renaissance Art

Explore the distinctive characteristics of Northern Renaissance art, from Italian influences and the use of oil painting to detailed realism, landscapes, and societal focus. Discover key artists like van der Weyden, van Eyck, Dürer, and Holbein, showcasing individualism and diverse subjects.

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Northern Renaissance Art

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  1. Northern Renaissance Art

  2. Characteristics • Italian influence strong, but NOT a copy-cat • New technology = Painting in OIL • The differences between the two cultures: • Italy change was inspired by humanism (classical antiquity) • No. Europe  change was driven by religious reform, the return to Christian values, and the revolt against the authority of the Church.

  3. Characteristics of Northern Renaissance Art, cont. • attention to details. • Tendency toward realism & naturalism [less emphasis on the “classical ideal”]. • Interest in landscapes. • More emphasis on middle-class and peasant life, details of domestic interiors, & portraits

  4. Flemish Realism

  5. Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464) The Deposition 1435

  6. van der Weyden’s Deposition (details)

  7. Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife(Wedding Portrait)Jan Van Eyck1434

  8. Jan van Eyck - Giovanni Arnolfini & His Wife(details)

  9. Quentin Massys (1465-1530) • Belonged to the humanist circle in Antwerp that included Erasmus. • Influenced by da Vinci. • Thomas More called him “the renovator of the old art.” • The Ugly Dutchess, 1525-1530 

  10. The Ill-Matched Lovers Massys, 1520

  11. Massys’ The Moneylender & His Wife, 1514

  12. Germany

  13. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) • The greatest of German artists. • A scholar as well as an artist. • His patron was the Emperor Maximilian I. • Also a scientist • Wrote books on geometry, fortifications, and human proportions. • Self-conscious individualism of the Renaissance is seen in his portraits. •  Self-Portrait at 26, 1498.

  14. Dürer – Self-Portrait in Fur-Collared Robe, 1500

  15. Dürer FourHorsemenof theApocalypsewoodcut, 1498

  16. Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece (1509)

  17. details

  18. The Low Countries

  19. HieronymusBoschThe Garden of Earthy Delights1500

  20. HieronymusBoschThe Garden of Earthy Delights(details)1500

  21. Bruegel’s, Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind, 1568

  22. Bruegel’s, Niederlandisch Proverbs, 1559

  23. Peasant Wedding

  24. England

  25. Hans Holbein, the Younger (1497-1543) • One of the great German artists who did most of his work in England. • While in Basel, he befriended Erasmus. • Erasmus Writing, 1523  • Henry VIII was his patron from 1536. • Great portraitist noted for: • Objectivity & detachment. • Doesn’t conceal the weaknesses of his subjects.

  26. Artist to the Tudors Henry VIII (left), 1540 and the future Edward VI (above), 1543.

  27. Holbein’s, The Ambassadors, 1533 A Skull

  28. Multiple Perspectives

  29. The English Were More Interested in Architecture than Painting Hardwick Hall, designed by Robert Smythson in the 1590s, for the Duchess of Shrewsbury [more medieval in style].

  30. Burghley House for William Cecil The largest & grandest house of the early Elizabethan era.

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