1. Ch.16 16 th century in Northern Europe

2. Hieronymus Bosch Netherlands 1450-1516

3. Hieronymus Bosch  20 th century Surrealists will claim him as their patron saint.  Bizarre imagination  Moralistic painting- punishments for sinners

4. Hieronymus Bosch Haywain (Triptych). 1485-1490. Oil on panel

5. Hieronymus Bosch details

6. Bosch

7. Creation of the World. Outer wings of the triptych Garden of the Earthly Delights. c.1510. Grisaille on panel.

8. Garden of Earthly Delights (Triptych). c.1510. Oil on panel.

11. Pieter Bruegel the Elder Netherlands 1525-1569

12. Pieter Bruegel the Elder Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1555. Oil on panel; 2’x4’

13. Bruegel He was one of the first artists to show people out working in the country side

14. Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Triumph of Death. 1562. Oil on panel.

15. Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Tower of Babel. 1563. Oil on panel.

16. Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Flemish Proverbs. 1559. Oil on panel.

17. He illustrated PROVERBS

18. Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Parable of the Blind. 1568. Oil on panel.

19. Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Peasant Wedding. 1568. Oil on panel.

20. Pieter Bruegel The Hunters In the Snow. 1565. Oil on panel. Mrs. Shortsleeve’s favorite

21. Matthias Grunewald Germany 1470-1528

22. Matthias Grunewald Isenheim Altarpiece, 1515, oil on wood

23. The Isenheim Alterpiece is a polyptych

24. Grunewald, The Crucifixion, 1515 Panel from the Isenheim altarpiece: oil on wood.

25. Grunewald, The Crucifixion, 1515 Panel from the Isenheim altarpiece: oil on wood. detail

26. The polyptych was commissioned for a chapel in a hospital that specialized in the treatment of skin diseases

28. Matthias Grunewald The Temptation of Saint Anthony 1515 Panel from the Isenheim altarpiece: oil on wood

29. He depicts intense, often violent emotion. His paintings are grim with vivid realism

30. Matthias Grunewald Isenheim Altarpiece, 1515, oil on wood

31. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497-1543 German (but lived and worked in England)

32. Holbein He displayed the influence of Early Northern painters - use of oils to render meticulous details

33. Hans Holbein the Younger Specialized in Portraiture

34. 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.

35. Hans Holbein The (French) Ambassadors, 1533. Oil on Wood.

36. Holbein’s meticulous details are mainly symbolic

37. 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.

38. Hans Holbein the Younger Henry VIII (King of England), 1540 Oil on Wood.

39. Albrecht Durer, Leonardo of the North Germany 1471-1528

40. Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait, c. 1498.

41. Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait, c. 1500. Crisp linear detail of the North Chiaroscuro from Italy

42. Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait, c. 1500. He poses frontally in a way that is reminiscent of earlier images of Christ or icons

43. His signature is a monogram He includes an artist statement

44. Albrecht Durer, Portrait of a Venitian Woman, c1505.

45. Albrecht Durer, Praying Hands.

46. Albrecht Durer, Similarities to Leonardo da Vinci

47. Albrecht Durer, Four Apostles, 1526. Similarities to Jan van Eyck

49. Albrecht Durer He produced the Apocalypse, the first book designed and published by a single artist

50. Albrecht Durer Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse, Woodcut, 1498. He loves line as seen in his woodcuts and engravings

51. Albrecht Durer Melancholia I, Copper Engraving, 1514.

52. Printmaking is a generic term for different techniques: woodcut engraving intaglio (Italian for carve)

53. 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.