1. Northern Renaissance Art
Mainly Flemish, with artists coming from Flanders, the Netherlands & Germany. Usually emphasized scenes of everyday life

2. Jan van Eyck ( )
The Arnolfini Wedding (1434)
Van Eyck was one of the first
to use oils. There is great
detail in this work, including
the mirror at the back, with
may show Van Eyck at work.

3. Albrecht Durer ( )
From Nuremberg, but studied in Italy. Blends medieval art & new Italian methods, working in woodcuts & engravings. His works were well known with the development of printing, with Durer’s works being used as illustrations.

4. A Durer self-portrait,
done in 1500, when he
was 28.

5. A Young Hare (1502)

6. A Durer woodcut from 1498,
The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse

7. Adam & Eve (1504)
A Durer engraving

8. Praying Hands
(1508)

9. Knight, Death & the Devil
(1513)

10. Melancholia I
(1514)

11. Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543)
Originally from Germany, but worked mainly in England. His many portraits show realism & concern for detail, but also demonstrate a dispassionate observation of detail & texture.

12. Portrait of Henry VIII
(c. 1536) - he’s the fat guy
with six wives (and he didn’t
have all of them killed.)

13. Anne of Cleves ( )
Henry VIII’s fourth wife.
This is the portrait that
convinced Henry to marry
her and Holbein made her
look much better than she
really did. Henry & Anne
were only married a few
months. (He couldn’t stand
her looks!)

14. Holbein’s portrait of
Erasmus, the leading
humanist of the Northern
Renaissance

15. Holbein’s master-
piece, The Am-
bassadors (1533)
That stretched out
thing is a skull.
(You have to look
at it from an
angle.)

16. Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (c. 1528-1569)
He helped to develop landscapes as a theme in painting. Also credited with the development of genre painting, depicting everyday peasant scenes.
Note the attention to minute detail.

17. Hunters in the Snow (1565)

18. Peasant Wedding (c. 1568)

19. The Fight between Carnival and Lent (1559) - on 2000’s DBQ

20. Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)

21. Hieronymus Bosch (c )
His works make moralistic comment on the human condition, showing macabre fantasies and bizarre creatures in strange worlds. He worked mainly in isolation. When one looks at his works, it’s clear why. (Personally, I think he was on major drugs.)

22. The center panel from
Bosch’s triptych, The
Garden of Earthly
Delights (c )
It shows an orgy in
progress.

23. The right panel from the Garden of
Earthly Delights, appropriately entitled
Hell. Notice the various weird things
going on.

24. A detail from the Hell panel
showing the “Bird-Headed
Monster.” (This Bosch guy
is one sick puppy!)

25. Last but not least, El Greco (1542-1614)
Originally from Greece, he worked in Spain. (His name means “the Greek”.) His works reflect mysticism & religious emotionalism, with elongated figures.

26. St. Jerome ( )

27. The Burial of Count
Orgaz (1586)

28. View of the City of
Toledo (c. 1597)
considered by some
as the greatest
landscape in the
history of art.