16 th Century North (Renaissance)
Historical Background 1517: Reformation 1534: Henry VIII and Act of Supremacy 1536: Calvin : Council of Trent 1555: Peace of Augsburg and challenge to authority of HRE : French religious wars
HRE Grunewald: Isenheim Altarpiece Grien: Witches’ Sabbath Durer: Fall of Man; Night, Death and the Devil; Four Apostles; self portrait; Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Altdorfer: Battle of Issus Hans Holbein: Henry VIII; The French Ambassadors
Choleric cat(bile) Melancholic elk(black bile) Sanguine rabbit (blood) Phlegmatic ox (phlegm) Four humors
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Q-card Lucas Cranach the Elder, Nymph of the Spring, 1537, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Another important northern Renaissance artist was Hans Holbein, who, like Durer, did a considerable amount of traveling throughout Europe. He is known primarily as a court painter, for he was at one point employed by the English King, Henry VIII. This is one of two paintings he did of the king (the other is more famous), but he also portrayed some of his
Hans HOLBEIN the younger, The French Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger, Henry VIII
France Clouet: Francis I Chateau/Chateaux Chennoceaux Chambord
Netherlands Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights Gossaert: Neptune and Amphitrite Massys: Moneychanger and his Wife Aertsen: Butcher’s Stall Caterina van Hemessen: Self-Portrait Patinir: Landscape with St Jerome Brueghel the Elder: Hunters in the Snow
Bosch altar closed
Levina Teerlinc, Elizabeth I as a Princess, 1559, oil on wood, 3’ x 2’
Bruegel, The Peasant Wedding
Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, Bruegel, Carrying of the Cross, 1564
Spain Herrera and Bautista de Toledo: El Escorial El Greco: Burial of Count Orgaz; Toledo
PLATERESQUE STYLE=LIKE SILVERSMITHS’ DESIGN