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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