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Northern Renaissance Art distinctively different from that of Italy styles of Northern artists: vary universal characteristics: (A.) meticulous rendering of details (B.) less classical ideal apparent Gothic influences

Albrecht Dürer

He is German painter, wood carver, engraver, and mathematician. He is best know for his woodcuts in series, including the Apocalypse (1498), two series on the crucifixion of Christ, the Great Passion ( ) and Little Passion ( ) as well as many of his individual prints, such as Knight, Death, and the Devil. He also made the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Knight, Death, and the Devil. city Knight Death Devil long-haired retriever inscription plate

Knight, Death, and the Devil. Executed in 1513 It depicted the Christian soul in the allegorical guise of a medieval knight. Knight armored with a spear, Death, Devil, a long- haired retriever, a city in the distance, and the inscription plate all bear a role in the drama performed in the wildness.

The tablet S stands for the letter of knight. 15 is explicitly XV of the Tarot, Devil. 13 is XIII of the Tarot, Death.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Famine Death Pestilence War Bishop

Dürer’s image seems a grim prophecy of the coming age, in which millioon people would die in religious wars.

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Matthias Grünewald German painter Real name: Matthias Gothardt Neithardt detail exaggeration intense emotion

Earliest datable work Contrast of colors (light & shadow) Exaggeration Figure distortion —violence Mocking of Christ

Crucifixion

Mary Mary Magdalen John the Baptist

(ITALIAN) Masaccio’s Trinity

symmetry details gravity

The Isenheim Altarpiece

The Annunciation grunewald/grunewald17.html

The Resurrection Art/16thCNorthStudyImages.htm

REFERENCE Eyecon Art e/northrenaiss.htm Web Gallery of Art e.html?/bio/g/grunewal/biograph.html

Hieronymus Bosch

BIOGRAPHY Jeroen Bosch, Jerome Bosch,(c – August, 1516) Dutch painter of the 15th and 16th century. In 1463, some 4000 houses in the town were destroyed by a catastrophic fire

STYLES Sin and human moral failings (seven sins) Complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography Rough surface Horror Vacui Surrealism

WORKS Death and the Miser Moriendi (the art of dying) Memento mori (reminder of death)

Angel Surprised! Accept Rosary Earthly follies

The Creation of Eve: The Garden of Earthly Delight: Hell (triptych)

InstrumentOversized flora Oversized fauna BreakerTransparent tubes Horned giraffeUnicorn

WITCH-HUNTS When  14 th ~ 16 th century Where  Europe (esp. Germany) Who  Single, Old and Eccentric women Influence  Christian humanism and rationalism v.s. barbarism and superstition Artist  Hans Baldung

Hair Goat Smoke Old Young Pitchfork

( Reference) cfm? usBosch ansBaldung.htm

Pieter Brueghel the Elder ( )

Outline Biography of Brueghel Types of paintings with works Other Works

Biography of Brueghel Born in Broghel near Breda Traveled to Italy in 1551 Abandoned the “h” in his name from 1559 An apprentice of Coecke and married his daughter Mayke later His sons—Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder

Types of Paintings with Works Great Flemish Painter Landscape Religious Subjects Peasant Life

Landscape Depict the changing seasonal moods and the atmospheric qualities of nature. Winters, Hunters in the Snow

Religious Object Great Flemish Painter Be influenced by Bosch Cloaked condemnations of human folly, immorality, and war. (p. 486) The Triumph of Death

Peasant Life “Peasant Brueghel” Realistic views of peasant life and folklore Portrayed them in broad, flat area in color. With very little modeling or shadow Peasant Wedding

Other Works Landscape with Christ Appearing to the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias

Snowy Landscape

Netherlandish Proverbs

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