Northern Renaissance Art Bella Lee Carolin Kuo Hedy Liu Wayne Chen

Northern Renaissance Art

distinctively different from that of Italystyles of Northern artists: varyuniversal characteristics: (A.) meticulous rendering of details (B.) less classical ideal apparentGothic influences

Albrecht Dürer

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 (1498-1510) and Little Passion (1510-1511) 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.

Others

Reference• Wikipedia• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Pag

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Matthias Grünewald

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

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/g/grunewal/biograph.html

Earliest datable work

Contrast of colors

(light & shadow)

Exaggeration

Figure distortion

—violence

Mocking of Christ

http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/g/grunewal/1/04mock.html

http://www.westga.edu/~rtekippe/slides1201/isenheim.html

Crucifixion

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/grunewald/crucifixion/

Mary

Mary Magdalen

John the Baptist

(ITALIAN)

Masaccio’s

http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/20C/Italian2.html

Trinity

symmetry

details

gravity

The Isenheim Altarpiece

http://www.eyeconart.net/history/Renaissance/northrenaiss.htm

The

Annunciation

http://www.abcgallery.com/G/grunewald/grunewald17.html

The Resurrection

http://www.contracosta.cc.ca.us/Art/16thCNorthStudyImages.htm

REFERENCE

Eyecon Art http://www.eyeconart.net/history/Renaissance/northrenaiss.htm

Web Gallery of Art http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/g/grunewal/biograph.html

Hieronymus Bosch

BIOGRAPHY

• Jeroen Bosch, Jerome Bosch,(c. 1450 – 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 floraOversized fauna

BreakerTransparent tubesHorned giraffeUnicorn

WITCH-HUNTS

• When14th ~ 16th century

• Where Europe (esp. Germany)

• Who Single, Old and Eccentric women

• InfluenceChristian humanism and rationalism v.s. barbarism and superstition

• Artist Hans Baldung

Hair

Goat

Smoke

Old

Young

Pitchfork

(Reference)

• http://www.boschuniverse.org//index.cfm?

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HieronymusBosch

• http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhle/001/HansBaldung.htm

Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525-1569)

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 1

559• An apprentice of Coecke and married his

daughter Mayke later• His sons—Pieter Brueghel the Younger a

nd 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 folklor

e• Portrayed them in broad, flat area in col

or.• 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

The End

Winters, Hunters in the Snow

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The Triumph of Death

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Peasant Wedding

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