1. Renaissance Art - daphne.palomar.edu 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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3. Northern Renaissance Artists
Albrecht Dürer
(Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Germany))
Considered by many to be the best of the Northern Renaissance artists
Self portrait

4. Albrecht Dürer Self portrait at 13 years-old
Self portrait about 10 years later

5. Some consider Durer the world’s first graphic designer
Young
Hare
Some consider Durer the world’s first graphic designer

6. St. Jerome in his study
engraving
1514

7. His monogram signature?
Melancolia I
(engraving)
Can you find the date?
His monogram signature?

8. Knight, Death, and Devil
engraving
1513

9. “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”
Woodcut, print
From the 15-print series “Apocalypse”
from left to right, Death, Famine, War, and Plague (or Pestilence).
from the Book of Revelation (6:1–8):
"And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and its rider had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, 'Come!' And out came another horse, bright red; its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that men should slay one another; and he was given a great sword. When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, 'Come!' And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and its rider had a balance in his hand; …

10. The Praying hands
1508
Sketch

11. Thomas More: Renaissance humanist and councilor to Henry VIII
Northern European Renaissance Art
More Realistic More detail People are flawed with imperfections
- more portrayals of everyday life, festivals, landscapes, villages, …

12. Thomas More: Renaissance humanist and councilor to Henry VIII
Portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger – 1527… More was executed by the king he served for so long 7 years later

13. “Portrait of Ginevra de Benci” by Leonardo da Vinci, c
“Portrait of Ginevra de Benci” by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1470s, on wooden panel This is the only painting by da Vinci in America

14. 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.