16 th Century Northern Europe Martin Luther Reformation 1517 Albrecht Dürer (Leonardo of the North) printmaking engraving & woodcut Caterina van Hemessen Hieronimus Bösch Garden of Earthly Delights Mattius Grünwald Isenheim Altarpiece Peter Bruegel the Elder
16 th Century Reformation & Counter Reformation Europe Martin Luther by Cranach
Gutenberg Press 15 th century – Luther’s catechism for childreen 16 th century
Northern High Renaissance 16 th century Albrecht Dürer s/p 1500 o/w 26 x 29” Jan van Eyck c. 1430
Albrecht Dürer s/p 1500 o/w 26 x 29”
Albrecht Dürer s/p x 16” o/w
Northern High Renaissance 16 th century Albrecht Dürer s/p 1500 o/w 26 x 29”
Dürer. The Apocalypse Woodcut 1490’s 15x11”
Dürer The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Adam & Eve Engraving 9x8” 1504
Adam & Eve Engraving 9x8” 1504
Dürer, Melancholia 9x7” engraving 1514
Dürer, Melancholia 9x7” engraving 1514
Hieronymus Bosch c
Hieronymus Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights c o/w 7x13’
Matthais Grünwald Aka Neithardt
Matthais Grünwald Isenheim Altarpiece c c 9x17’
Matthais Grünwald Isenheim Altarpiece c c 9x17’
Peter Brueghel the Elder THE PAINTER & THE CONNOISSEUR drawing, 1565”
Peter Brueghel the Elder, The Fall of Icarus 1555 o/w (now canvas) 2 ½ x 3 ½’
Peter Brueghel the Elder, Peasant’s Dance (The Kermiss) 4x 5 ½’ 1567 o/w
Peter Brueghel the Elder, The Kermiss 1567 The Dance William Carlos Williams In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess, the dancers go round, they go round and around, the squeal and the blare and the tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles tipping their bellies (round as the thick- sided glasses whose wash they impound) their hips and their bellies off balance to turn them. Kicking and rolling about the Fair Grounds, swinging their butts, those shanks must be sound to bear up under such rollicking measures, prance as they dance in Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess..,
CATERINA VAN HERMESSEN S/P AT YOUNG WOMAN 1551
Henry VIII Age 49 Holbein 1540
The Tudors
Hans Holbein Miniatures (2-3”) Anne of Cleves & Catherine Howard
Lavinia Teerlinc Young Elizabeth 1 st
Great Seal of England
Van Eyck, Man in the Red Turban, 1433