The Renaissance
Chapter 13-3
Mannerism
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Michelangelo was the bridge between Italian
Renaissance Art and Mannerism
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Belief that painting in the Renaissance style had
reached perfection so…
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Exaggerated poses, elongated limbs, weird
Tintoretto’s Baptism of Christ
El Greco was the greatest
Mannerist of all
Unnatural pigments
Elongated Limbs
The Burial of Count Orgaz
The Northern Renaissance
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The Northern Renaissance was
More Religious
 More emotion in the art
 More detailed especially in the background
 More preoccupation with death
The art in the North reflected Christian Humanism:
How can the knowledge of human nature as
revealed in the ancient texts be blended with
Christian principles to create a better (more
Christian) world?
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Flemish Style
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Van Eyck: Perfected oil painting
Had much religious symbolism
Arnolfini and his Wife
Arnolfini and his Wife
Netherlands
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Bosch: Symbolism, surreal, fantasy
Death and the Miser
Peter Bruegal the Elder
Peasant Wedding
Not much Renaissance influence
Focused on lives of ordinary people
Death and the Miser
Peasant Wedding
The Germans
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Durer: Master of the woodcut
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Was the first to bring Renaissance style to the North
Hans Holbein the Younger: Portraits
The Ambassadors
 Henry VIII
 Erasmus
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Durer’s Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse
The Ambassadors
Henry VIII
Erasmus
(Spain)El Greco’s The Holy Trinity
The Fugger Family
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Like the Medici, they were bankers who
patronized the arts in the North