Northern Renaissance Art

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• Northern Renaissance Art
• Bella Lee
• Carolin Kuo
• Hedy Liu
• Wayne Chen

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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

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• Albrecht Dürer

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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.

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Knight, Death, and the Devil.

• city

Knight
Death
Devil
long-haired retriever
inscription plate
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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.

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The tablet

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

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Pestilence
Famine
War
Death
Bishop
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• Dürers image seems a grim prophecy of the coming
  age, in which millioon people would die in
  religious wars.

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Others
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Reference

• Wikipedia
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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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/bi
ograph.html
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Mocking of Christ
Earliest datable work Contrast of colors
(light shadow) Exaggeration Figure distortion
violence
http//gallery.euroweb.hu/html/g/grunewal/1/04mock
.html
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Crucifixion
http//www.westga.edu/rtekippe/slides1201/isenhei
m.html
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John the Baptist
Mary
Mary Magdalen
http//www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/grunewald/cru
cifixion/
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Masaccios
Trinity
(ITALIAN)
http//medieval.ucdavis.edu/20C/Italian2.html
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details gravity
symmetry
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The Isenheim Altarpiece
http//www.eyeconart.net/history/Renaissance/north
renaiss.htm
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The Annunciation
http//www.abcgallery.com/G/ grunewald/grunewald17
.html
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The Resurrection
http//www.contracosta.cc.ca.us/ Art/16thCNorthStu
dyImages.htm
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REFERENCE

• Eyecon Art http//www.eyeconart.net/history/Renai
  ssance/northrenaiss.htm
• Web Gallery of Art http//www.wga.hu/frames-e.htm
  l?/bio/g/grunewal/biograph.html

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Hieronymus Bosch
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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

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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

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WORKS

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

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Angel
Surprised!
Accept
Rosary
Earthly follies
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• The Creation of Eve The Garden of Earthly
  Delight Hell (triptych)

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Horned giraffe
Unicorn
Breaker
Transparent tubes
Oversized fauna
Instrument
Oversized flora
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WITCH-HUNTS

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

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Hair
Goat
Smoke
Old
Young
Pitchfork
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(Reference)

• http//www.boschuniverse.org//index.cfm?
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HieronymusBosch
• http//personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhle/001/HansBaldung.ht
  m

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Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525-1569)
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Outline

• Biography of Brueghel
• Types of paintings with works
• Other Works

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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 sonsPieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan
  Brueghel the Elder

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Types of Paintings with Works

• Great Flemish Painter
• Landscape
• Religious Subjects
• Peasant Life

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Landscape

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

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Religious Object

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

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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

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Other Works
Landscape with Christ Appearing to the Apostles
at the Sea of Tiberias
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Snowy Landscape
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Netherlandish Proverbs
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• The End

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Winters, Hunters in the Snow
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The Triumph of Death
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Peasant Wedding
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