Ch th century in Northern Europe
Hieronymus Bosch Netherlands
Hieronymus Bosch 20 th century Surrealists will claim him as their patron saint. Bizarre imagination Moralistic painting- punishments for sinners
Hieronymus Bosch Haywain (Triptych) Oil on panel
Hieronymus Bosch details
Bosch
Creation of the World. Outer wings of the triptych Garden of the Earthly Delights. c Grisaille on panel.
Garden of Earthly Delights (Triptych). c Oil on panel.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder Netherlands
Pieter Bruegel the Elder Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c Oil on panel; 2’x4’
Bruegel He was one of the first artists to show people out working in the country side
Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Triumph of Death Oil on panel.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Tower of Babel Oil on panel.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Flemish Proverbs Oil on panel.
He illustrated PROVERBS
Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Parable of the Blind Oil on panel.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Peasant Wedding Oil on panel.
Pieter Bruegel The Hunters In the Snow Oil on panel. Mrs. Shortsleeve’s favorite
Matthias Grunewald Germany
Matthias Grunewald Isenheim Altarpiece, 1515, oil on wood
The Isenheim Alterpiece is a polyptych
Grunewald, The Crucifixion, 1515 Panel from the Isenheim altarpiece: oil on wood.
Grunewald, The Crucifixion, 1515 Panel from the Isenheim altarpiece: oil on wood. detail
The polyptych was commissioned for a chapel in a hospital that specialized in the treatment of skin diseases
Matthias Grunewald The Temptation of Saint Anthony 1515 Panel from the Isenheim altarpiece: oil on wood
He depicts intense, often violent emotion. His paintings are grim with vivid realism
Matthias Grunewald Isenheim Altarpiece, 1515, oil on wood
Hans Holbein the Younger German (but lived and worked in England)
Holbein He displayed the influence of Early Northern painters - use of oils to render meticulous details
Hans Holbein the Younger Specialized in Portraiture
Hans Holbein the Younger German Merchant, 1532, Oil on Wood. During the Reformation, many artists chose secular portraits over Church pieces as a way to make a living.
Hans Holbein The (French) Ambassadors, Oil on Wood.
Holbein’s meticulous details are mainly symbolic
The skull, rendered in anamorphic perspective- a visual puzzle that the viewer must approach the painting nearly from the side to see the form morph into a skull.
Hans Holbein the Younger Henry VIII (King of England), 1540 Oil on Wood.
Albrecht Durer, Leonardo of the North Germany
Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait, c
Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait, c Crisp linear detail of the North Chiaroscuro from Italy
Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait, c He poses frontally in a way that is reminiscent of earlier images of Christ or icons
His signature is a monogram He includes an artist statement
Albrecht Durer, Portrait of a Venitian Woman, c1505.
Albrecht Durer, Praying Hands.
Albrecht Durer, Similarities to Leonardo da Vinci
Albrecht Durer, Four Apostles, Similarities to Jan van Eyck
Albrecht Durer He produced the Apocalypse, the first book designed and published by a single artist
Albrecht Durer Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse, Woodcut, He loves line as seen in his woodcuts and engravings
Albrecht Durer Melancholia I, Copper Engraving, 1514.
Printmaking is a generic term for different techniques: woodcut engraving intaglio (Italian for carve)
In engraving/ intaglio you incise an image into a metal plate with a burin. Prints are affordable because multiple copies can be made. A set of multiples is called an edition.