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Renaissance
Art
Italian Renaissance
Northern Renaissance
Subject matter:
Classical mythology, religious
scenes.
Domestic interiors,
landscapes, portraits,
everyday life, and religious
scenes.
Style:
Symmetrical, balanced, good sense
of mass, linear perspective.
Attention to surface detail,
naturalism.
Known for:
Figures with mass and volume,
knowledge of underlying anatomy,
ideal human form.
Small surface detail, flaws
of the human body.
Media:
Fresco, tempera, oil.
Oil on panel.
Example:
Michelangelo, Creation of Adam from
the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Jan van Eyck, Albrecht
Durer, Hans Holbein
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Northern
Renaissance Artists
Albrecht Dürer
(Nuremberg, Holy Roman
Empire (Germany))
1471-1528
Considered by many to be the
best of the Northern
Renaissance artists
Self portrait
Albrecht Dürer
Self portrait at 13 years-old
Self portrait about 10 years later
A
Young
Hare
Some consider
Durer the
world’s first
graphic
designer
St. Jerome in his
study
engraving
1514
Melancolia I
(engraving)
Can you find
the date?
His monogram
signature?
Knight, Death,
and Devil
engraving
1513
Four
Horsemen
from“The
the Book
of Revelation
(6:1–8):
of the Apocalypse”
"And I saw, and behold, a white
horse, and its rider had a bow;
and a crown was given to him,
and heWoodcut,
went out conquering
print and
to conquer. When he opened the
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second seal, I heard the second
living creature say, 'Come!' And
out came another horse, bright
red; its
rider the
was permitted
From
15-printto take
peace
from the
earth, so that men
series
“Apocalypse”
should slay one another; and he
was given a great sword. When
he opened the third seal, I heard
from
left
to right,
the third
living
creature
say,
'Come!'
And IFamine,
saw, and War,
behold, a
Death,
black horse,
its rider
and and
Plague
(orhad a
balance in his hand; …
Pestilence).
The Praying
hands
1508
Sketch
Hans Holbein - 1532
Northern European Renaissance Art
More Realistic
- High detail
- People flawed
“Portrait of
Ginevra de
Benci” by
Leonardo da
Vinci, c.
1470s, on
wooden panel
This is the
only painting
by da Vinci in
America
Charles V
Holy Roman
Emperor
Supported the Pope
and fought against the
spread of
Protestantism. Nephew
to Catherine of Aragon,
Henry VIII’s first wife.
Charles is probably the
reason Pope Clement
VII denied Henry’s
divorce.