HIGH NORTHERN RENAISSANCE Flashcards
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Key Take Away Points
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- interest in revival of classical antiquity and ideal propoirtions : in parallel w italian art
- celebration and self-consciousness of the artist as a divine creator
- gradual loss of renaissance confidence, emphasis on fall from grace and remorse over virtue/reason in art
- rising disillusionment with church wealth, power and corruption
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KEY FIGURES
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Albrecht Dürer Jan van Eyck jan gossaert lorenzo di credi Hieronymus Bosch Rogier Van der Weyden Matthias Grunewald Quentin Massys
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Albrecht Dürer
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Self portrait 1500 Adam and Eve 1504 engraving Adam and Eve 1507 oil Melancholia 1514 engraving Self-Portrait of a Man in Sorrows 1522
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Jan Van Eyck (cont)
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Holy face (workshop) [artist as the divine] 1438 Portrait of a Man 1433
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jan gossaert
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St. Luke Painting the Virgin 1520-25
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lorenzo di credi
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Venus 1493-94
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Hieronymus Bosch
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Garden of Earthly delights 1490-1500
Haywait Triptych 1490-95
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Haywait Triptych 1490-95 STORY
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birth and consequnce of sin, divine cycle of time from creation to end of time with humans
in middle panel: being led to hell by infernal beings drawing hay cart forward
–In first panel rebel angels are cast to earth and turn into insects
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Rogier Van der Weyden
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St. Colymbia Altarpiece 1455
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Matthias Grunewald
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Isenehim Altarpiest 1510-15
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Quentin Massys
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The moneychanger and his wife 1514
