for Ms. Fuentes AP Art History Class

1. Late Renaissance in Northern
Europe and Spain
Continued…..

3. Northern Renaissance
• term: “Northern Renaissance”
– more of a grafting or fusion of Italian
innovations with local traditions
• difference from Italy:
– neither heritage of Antiquity’s ideals nor beauty
of human anatomy consistently manifested
– focus
• extreme states of emotion
• visible surface appearance

4. Northern Renaissance
• context: Protestant Reformation
– Martin Luther (1483-1546)
• pivotal figure
• publication of Ninety-five
Theses (1517)
– justification by faith
alone instead of by good
works
– attacked indulgences of
Catholic Church
– led to breaking away of
most north German
states from Church of
Rome

5. Northern Renaissance
• Iconoclasms in N. Europe
• Some art destroyed, other artists
stove to represent figures w/o
creating “pagan idols”
• Durer represents the
combination of N. Renaissance
realism with the Italian concern
for size and monumnetality

6. Bosch’s Earthly Delights
• Bosch’s Earthly Delights
– “Third Day of Creation”
• patron: aristocratic
• theme: Humanist
• outer panel when closed
• complete work consists of
four paintings on a series
of folding panels
• scale: large
– center panel > 7’ x 6’

7. Hieronymous Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on wood, 7’2” x 3’2”, 1505-1515,
now in Prado, Madrid. Allegory of evil, symbolism, and some say surrealism.
Garden of Earthly Delights Video

8. Center panel - flashcard
• Hieronymus Bosch
– Garden of Earthly Delights
(c. 1510-15)
• subject: Sin
• narrative: allegorical
– humans’ inability to
save themselves
– alchemy (?)
• mood: fantastic &
nightmarish vision
– antecedents in recent
Gothic past
– over 1K figures

9. Hell panel from Bosch
• Bosch’s Earthly Delights
– “Hell”
• setting: dark world of
fire & ice
• theme: sensual pleasures
turned into elements of
torture
• figures: hybrid forms,
unnatural unions
• color: vibrant
• light/shadow:
chiaroscuro
• aerial perspective: night

10. Annunciation and Virgin of the
Rosary, painted & gilt
limewood, 12’2” x 10’6”, 1517,
Nuremberg.
Velt Stoss
Northern Europe artists made
intricately carved altarpieces
and sculptures from wood

11. Hagenaur’s St. Anthony Enthroned, Shrine of the Isenheim Altarpiece (open)

12. Isenheim Altarpiece, oil on wood, Matthias Grunewald… 9’9” x 10’9”, 1515.. Isenheim,
France-3 views, made for hospital of people suffering St. Anthony’s disease, ergotism,
agony of ergotism shown in Christ (amputation in next view)

13. Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, first opening…

14. Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait,
oil on wood, 26’ x 19”, 1500
flashcard
Christ-like pose, not
blasphemous, human creativity
as a reflection of God’s divinity
Frontality, symmetry, triangular
composition
Combined Italian
monumentality w/N. European
precision (van Eyck?)
Duhrer studied in Italy, was also
printmaker/engraver

15. Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse, woodcut, Durer,
1498.
Book of Revelations (Bible),
Gothic forms inspired by
Mantegna
No background, no division
between earth and heaven
Famine (scales), war (sword),
death (pitchfork), and pestilence
(bow)
Crowded composition, horsemen
ride over dead bodies
flashcard

16. Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Title: Adam and Eve
Medium: Engraving
Size: 9⅞ X 7⅝" (25.1 X
19.4 cm)
Date: 1504
Contrapossto figures with
classical sculpture influence
Four humors - rabbit
(energy), elk (sad), ox
(lethargic), cat (angry).
Mouse = Satan, parrot =
clever, Adam tries to
dissuade Eve
Detailed in northern
tradition
flashcard

17. Four Apostles, Durer
Oil on wood, 7” x 30” each
panel, 1526
Four humors AGAIN… John
sanguine, Paul melancholic,
Mark choleric, Peter
phlegmatic
Italian size, N. European
attention to detail
Peter = Pope in rome,
shown in shadow
Mark and Paul on right

18. Danube Landscape, Albrecht Alttdorfer
Oil on vellum on wood panel, 12” x 8”
1525
Landscapes became very popular in
Northern Europe…
Altdorfer and Bruegel were 2 famous
landscape artists from this era…..
Bruegel although he studied in Italy, did
not show much Italian influence…

19. Return of the Hunters, Pieter Bruegel, oil on wood, 1565, part of series of seasonal
paintings. Hunters are peasant types; strong diagonals in picture. Typical scene rather
than a specific narrative. Winter landscape in Belgium. FLASHCARD

20. In SPAIN, El Greco studied
Mannerism in Italy.. . Then
returned to create dramatic,
interesting compositions
Burial of Count Orgaz, oil on
canvas, 1585…
Tomb located directly below the
painting. Painting
commissioned 300 yrs after his
death! Great philanthropist,.
Combo of Venetian color,
Spanish mysticism, Mannerism
figures

21. View of Toledo, oil on
canvas; 47” x 42”,
1610
Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York
El Greco
Also painted
landscapes, with
drama of mannerism
and expressive
brushstrokes and color

22. Henry VIII, Hans Holbein, oil
on wood, 32” 29”,
Holbein was court painter in
England
Showed monumentality of
King Henry VIII< who was a
very large man
Mannerist influence
flashcard

23. Some women artist, such as
Caterina van Hemessen in her
Self-portrait, worked in the
Northern Renaissance as well…

24. Princess Elizabeth, Levina Bening
Teerlinc, 42” x 32”, 1559
Levina was court painter in
England, skilled portraitist.
This portrait is in Windsor Castle
today!

25. Girl with the Pearl Earring
Vermeer
Scenes of daily life
Excelled in luminous lighting