Art of the
Northern Renaissance
Detail of Adoration of the Magi, Durer
How was it different from the
Italian Renaissance?
•Little influence from Classical
ideals and themes
•Little work in architecture and
sculpture
•Great detail in paintings with
much symbolism
•Oils first developed there, as was
painting on canvas
•More interested in depicting
everyday life as time went on
Early Northern Renaissance
Claus Sluter, Dutch/French sculptor (1350-1406)
Well of Moses
Detail from
the Memorial
for Philip the
Bold
Early Northern Renaissance
Jean, Paul and Herman Limbourg, Flemish (1370-1416
Les Tres
Riches:
Heures du
Duc de Berri:
March
Les Tres Riches:
Heures du Duc
de Berri: May
Les Tres Riches:
Heures du Duc de
Berri: September
Northern Renaissance
Robert Campin, Flemish (1375-1444)
Portrait of a Woman
Merode Altarpiece
Northern Renaissance
Jan Van Eyck, Flemish (1385-1441)
Ghent Altarpiece, closed and open
Details from the Ghent Altarpiece
Madonna and
Chancellor Rolin
Madonna and Canon Van der Peale
The
Annuncia
tion,
1450?
The Annunciation, 1435
The Arnolfini Marriage
Northern Renaissance
Rogier Van der Weyden, Brussels (1400-1464)
Madonna and Four Saints
Saint George and the Dragon
St. Luke Painting the Virgin
Portrait of a
Young Lady
Portrait of a Young
Woman
Man Holding Book
The Deposition
Northern Renaissance
Hans Memling, Bruges (1440-1494)
Virgin and Child with Angels
St. John and Veronica
The Annunciation
The Donne Triptych
Man with Arrow
Portrait of an Old Woman
Northern Renaissance
Jean Fouquet, France (1420-1480)
Various
Illuminations
Northern Renaissance
Hieronymous Bosch, Dutch (1450-1516)
Death and
the Miser
The Magician
Christ Carrying the Cross
Garden of Earthly Delights, closed and
detail of Garden of Eden
Northern Renaissance
Albrecht Durer, Germany (1471-1528)
Portrait of a Clergyman
Portrait of a Young
Venetian Woman
Madonna and Child
Lot and His Daughters
Christ Among the Doctors
Lamentation
Adoration of the Holy
Trinity
A few samples of
woodcuts by
others
Four Riders of the Apocalypse
The Trinity
St. Michael Fighting the Dragon
Adam and Eve
The Knight
Marriage of the Virgin
Portrait of Erasmus
Rhino, Engraving
Rhino, drawing
Three Peasants in Conversation
Peasant Couple Dancing
The Deposition
Various Watercolors
Northern Renaissance
Matthias Grunewald, Germany (1475-1528)
The Isenheim Altarpiece
The Crucifixion
The Annunciation and the
Resurrection
Northern Renaissance
Hans Holbein the Younger, Germany (1497-1543)
Dance of Death,
the Plowman
The Letter A
Venus and Armor
Virgin and Child
Edward VI as a Child
Christina of
Denmark
Henry VIII
Portrait of a
Woman
Portrait of a
Young Man
Portrait of the Merchant
Georg Gisze
Portrait of Sir
Brian Tuke
Portrait of Erasmus
Erasmus Writing
The
Ambassadors
Northern Renaissance
Quentin Massys, Flemish (1464-1530)
Portrait of Erasmus
Adoration of the Magi
Ill-matched Lovers
The Moneylender and his Wife
Northern Renaissance
Peter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish (1525-1569)
Netherlandish
Proverbs
Peasant Wedding
Autumn Harvest
Hunters in the Snow
Procession to Calvary
Fall of Icarus
Village Lawyer
Children’s Games