Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights triptych - open position, oil/wood; 78" x 88"; c. 1500
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
Northern Europe and Spain: the High
Renaissance and Mannerism
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Pieter Aertsen: Butcher's Stall (Meat Market), 1551oil on canvas, 4'1 x 6'6"
Quentin Massys:
Banker and his Wife
1514, oil on wood, 2' 3-3/4"
x 2' 2"
Dutch artists: the complexity of vision
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Altdorfer: Landscape on
the Danube near Regensburg
oil on vellum on panel, 12" x 9"
ca. 1525
Albrecht Altdorfer:Battle of Alexander
(Battle of Issus)1529, oil on wood, 52
1/4 x 47 1/4"
Artists of the Holy Roman Empire:
Altdorfer, Durer, Grien, Grunewald, Holbein
Hunters in the Snow, 1565, oil on wood, 3'10 x 5'4
Jesus Carrying the Cross (The Way to Calvary), 1564
Pieter Bruegel: Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559, oil/panel, 46" x 64"
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Melencolia I1514
engraving, 9-7/8" x 7-5/8"
The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve)
Albrecht Dürer, 1504engraving, 9-7/8" x 7-
5/8"
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
2. 2nd open position, with shrine (carved by Nikolaus Hagenauer, Painted and gilt limewood, 9’ 9 1/2” x 10’ 9”
Grunewald: Isenheim Altarpiece:
1. closed position
c.1512-15, oil/wood, 9'9 x 10'9 (center panel)
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Levina Teerlinc: Elizabeth I as a
Princess, ca. 1559, oil on wood, 3'7 x
2'8
Caterina van Hemessen: Self-
Portrait, 1548, oil on wood,
12" x 9-7/8"
Holbein: French
Ambassadors, 1533, 6'8
x 6'9"[with an
anamorphic skull]
Hans Holbein:
Erasmus of Rotterdam
152316" x 12"
Hans Baldung Grien: Death and the Maiden, 1510,
oil/wood, 19 x 13"
Witches' Sabbath1510, 15" x 10"; chiaroscuro
woodcut
Self-Portrait in a Fur-Trimmed Coat
1500, oil on limewood, 26" x 20"
a cult of Durer? a cult of portraits?
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Pierre Lescot: Palais du Louvre, west wing, Cour Carrée, (Square Court), 1546-1578
El Escorial, (Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo)near Madrid, Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de
Herrera, ca. 1563-1584
El Escorial (Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo)
near Madrid
Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera, ca. 1563-1584
Colegio of San Gregorio: portal
1486-92
Valladolid (Spain)
Spain: Plateresque style
[silversmith: platero]
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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
El Greco: Burial of the Count of
Orgaz
1586-88
oil on canvas16' x 12'
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