High Northern Renaissance

Question 1

Characteristics of High Northern Renaissance

Answer 1

• Protestant Reformation
• Counter-Reformation
• Northern Renaissance artists, artworks, genres the reflect societal and religious conflict

Question 2

Answer 2

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Law and Gospel, ca. 1530

Question 3

Answer 3

Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait in a Fur Coat, ca. 1500

Question 4

Answer 4

Albrecht Durer, Four Apostles, 1526

Question 5

Answer 5

Hans Holbein the Younger, The French Ambassadors, c. 1533

Question 6

Answer 6

Caterina Van Hemessen, Self-Portrait, 1548.

Question 7

Answer 7

Peter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559

Question 8

Answer 8

El Greco, Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586

Question 9

Council of Trent (1545-1563)

Answer 9

• Reformation issues are discussed and resolved
• Condemnation of Protestant movement
• Clarification of the church’s doctrine
• Counter-Reformation planning

–Nudity in religious art now unacceptable

Question 10

General Recommendations for religious art (Council of Trent):

Answer 10

• Religious art is an important instrument in the fight against Protestantism and can be used in a non-idolatrous way

Religious art is to:

• re-assert the authority of the Pope and the Catholic Church
• Stress the importance of Church rituals
• include an accurate retelling of religious narratives with no artificial embellishment
• include only tasteful representations, no gratuitous nudity etc
• appeal to the emotions of the viewer in an effort to incite piety