Northern Renaissance Art

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The Northern Renaissance
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Renaissance Art in Northern Europe

• Should not be considered an appendage to Italian
  art.
• But, Italian influence was strong.
• Painting in OIL, developed in Flanders, was
  widely adopted in Italy.
• The differences between the two cultures
• Italy ? change was inspired by humanism with its
  emphasis on the revival of the values of
  classical antiquity.
• No. Europe ? change was driven by religious
  reform, the return to Christian values, and the
  revolt against the authority of the Church.
• More princes kings were patrons of artists.

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Characteristics of Northern Renaissance Art

• Tendency toward realism naturalism less
  emphasis on the classical ideal.
• Interest in landscapes.
• More emphasis on middle-class and peasant life.
• Details of domestic interiors.
• Great skill in portraiture.

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Flemish Realism

• People from Flanders are Flemish
• Flanders parts of present day Belgium, France 
  and the Netherlands

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Jan van Eyck (1395 1441)

• More courtly and aristocratic work.
• Court painter to the Duke of Burgundy, Philip the
  Good.
• ?The Virgin and Chancellor Rolin, 1435.

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Van Eyck? The CrucifixionThe Last
Judgment ?1420-1425
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Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife(Wedding
Portrait) Jan Van Eyck1434
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Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464)
The Deposition 1435
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van der Weydens Deposition (details)
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Quentin Massys (1465-1530)

• The Ugly Dutchess, 1525-1530 ?

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Massys The Moneylender His Wife, 1514
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Germany
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Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553)

• Court painter at Wittenberg from 1505-1553.
• His best portraits were of Martin Luther (to the
  left).

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Lucas Cranach the Elder
Old Man with a Young Woman
Amorous Old Woman with a Young Man
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

• A scholar as well as an artist.
• Also a scientist
• Wrote books on geometry, fortifications, and
  human proportions.
• ? Self-Portrait at 26, 1498.

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Dürer Self-Portrait in Fur-Collared Robe, 1500
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Dürer The Last Supperwoodcut, 1510
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Dürer FourHorsemenof theApocalypsewoodcut,
1498
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The Low Countries
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Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516)

• A pessimistic view of human nature.
• Had a wild and lurid imagination.
• Fanciful monsters apparitions.
• Untouched by the values of the Italian
  perspective.
• His figures are flat.
• Perspective is ignored.
• More a landscape painter than a portraitist.

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HieronymusBoschThe Garden of Earthy
Delights1500
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569)

• Was deeply concerned with human vice and follies.
• A master of landscapes not a portraitist.
• People in his works often have round, blank,
  heavy faces.
• They are expressionless, mindless, and sometimes
  malicious.
• They are types, rather than individuals.
• Their purpose is to convey a message.

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Bruegels, Tower of Babel, 1563
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Bruegels, Mad Meg, 1562
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Bruegels, The Beggars, 1568
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Bruegels, Parable of the Blind Leading the
Blind, 1568
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Bruegels, The Triumph of Death, 1562
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Bruegels, Hunters in the Snow, 1565
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Bruegels, Winter Scene, 1565
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Bruegels, The Harvesters, 1565
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Spain
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El GrecoChrist in Agony on the Cross1600s
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El GrecoPortrait of aCardinal1600
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England
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Hans Holbein, the Younger (1497-1543)

• One of the great German artists who did most of
  his work in England.
• Erasmus Writing, 1523 ?
• Henry VIII was his patron from 1536.
• Great portraitist noted for
• Objectivity detachment.
• Doesnt conceal the weaknesses of his subjects.

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Artist to the Tudors
Henry VIII (left), 1540 and the future Edward VI
(above), 1543.
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The Elizabethan Age

• Queen Elizabeth reigned in England from 1558 to
  1603 more on her later.

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William Shakespeare
All the worlds a stage, we are merely players.
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Shakespeare's Movies

• Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)

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Shakespeare's Movies

• Romeo Must Die (2000)

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Shakespeare's Movies

• Valley Girl(1983)

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Shakespeare's Movies

• West Side Story (1961)

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Shakespeare's Movies

• The Lion King (1994)

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Shakespeare's Movies

• The Lion King II Simba's Pride (1998)

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Shakespeare's Movies

• She's the Man (2006)

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Shakespeare's Movies

• Forbidden Planet (1956)

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Shakespeare's Movies

• 10 Things I Hate about You (1999)

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Shakespeare's Movies

• Kiss Me, Kate (1948)

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Quotable Shakespeare

• A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man
  knows himself to be a fool.

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Quotable Shakespeare

•  Be not afraid of greatness some are born great,
  some achieve greatness, and some have greatness
  thrust upon them.  

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Quotable Shakespeare

• Love all,
• trust a few,
• do wrong to none. 

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Quotable Shakespeare

• All the world's a stage, and all the men and
  women merely players they have their exits and
  their entrances and one man in his time plays
  many parts, his acts being seven ages. 

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Quotable Shakespeare

• Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the
  wing wherewith we fly to heaven. 

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Quotable Shakespeare

• Better three hours too soon than a minute too
  late. 

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Quotable Shakespeare

• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. 

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Quotable Shakespeare

• I say there is no darkness but ignorance. 

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