AP Art History Chapter 23: High Renaissance in Northern Europe Define the vocabulary terms Key Cultural & Religious Terms: indulgences, Luther’s 95 Theses, Protestant Reformation, Counter‐Reformation, iconoclasm Key Art Terms: predella, chiaroscuro woodcut, four humors, anamorphic image, maulstick, Landschaft Key Architectural Terms: chateaux, plateresque style Exercises for Study 1. Describe how Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece would have related specifically to the audience at the Hospital of Saint Anthony. 2. In what ways does Albrecht Dürer’s Four Apostles serve as an expression of the Protestant faith? 3. Compare and contrast the following pairs of artworks, using the points of comparison as a guide. A. Albrecht Dürer, Fall of Man (Adam and Eve) (Fig. 23‐5); Lucas Cranach the Elder, Law and Gospel (Fig. 23‐8) • Medium: • Subject & theme: • Style: B. Pierre Lescot, west wing of the Cour Carré of the Louvre (Fig. 23‐14); Portal, Colegio de San Gregorio (Fig. 23‐23) • Location: • Function of buildings: • Stylistic traditions: C. Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights (Fig. 23‐1); Joachim Patinir, Landscape with Saint Jerome (Fig. 23‐
20) • Nationality of artist: • Subject: • Function of painting: • Style: Chapter Questions
1. Northern humanists cultivated knowledge of classical cultures and literature, but they focused more on reconciling humanism with ________________. (647) 2. Why was Desiderius Erasmus one the most influential Christian humanist? (647) 3. What is the symbolism of Durer’s right hand in Self‐Portrait in 1500? (650) 4. In Durer’s Melencolia I, explain the symbols and meaning of the engraving? (651) 5. Explain Luther and the Reformation. What happened to art during this time? How does Durer’s, Four Apostles and Cranach the Elder’s, Law and Gospel express the issues of the Reformation. (652‐653) 6. What happened in the Great Iconoclams and how does this show the importance of art? (654) 7. Describe the symbolism (skull, cross, lute, compass, sundial, globes, and hymnbook) and meaning in the Holbein’s French Ambassadors. What is an anamorphic image? (656) 8. How does Jean Clouet’s, Francis I, show his power and authority? (657) 9. Who was the architect of the Cour Caree of the Louvre, Paris, France in 1546? This building has a mix of different architectural styles. What are the French, Roman, and High Renaissance influences used in this building? (658) 10. In Quinten Massys’, Money Changer and His Wife, we see a commentary on Netherlandish values. Discuss at least three ways the artist depicts the values and mores of a financial transaction. (660) 11. What is a genre scene or painting? How does the The Butcher’s Stall show images of gluttony along with allusion to salvation? (660) 12. The greatest Netherlandish painter of the mid‐16th century was _______. In this painting, Netherlandish Proverbs, he paints over _____ proverbs. Describe at least two proverbs used in the painting.(662) 13. Why is the Hunters in the Snow one of the greatest landscape paintings in Western art? (663)