Northern Europe 1400-1600 Flashcards
Susanna and the Elders
Type: roundel
Materials/Techniques: yellow-stain glass, colorless, silver stain
Dimensions: Diam. 9.5 in.
Creator: Based on a design by the Pseudo-Ortkens Group
Culture: South Netherlandish
Date/Period: ca. 1520-25/Northern Renaissance
Style Period: Northern Renaissance
Place of Origin: Antwerp or Brussels, South Netherlands
Repository: The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tiled Stove
Type: stove, heating equipment
Materials/Techniques: tin-glazed earthenware
Ceramicist: Thomas Ströbel
Culture: Austrian
Date/Period: ca. 1560/Northern Renaissance
Style Period: Northern Renaissance
Place of Origin: Salzburg (present-day Austria)
Repository: Museum für angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts), Vienna, Austria
Tiled Stove (detail of central panel, The Allegory of Law and Faith)
Type: stove, heating equipment
Materials/Techniques: tin-glazed earthenware
Ceramicist: Thomas Ströbel
Culture: Austrian
Date/Period: ca. 1560/Northern Renaissance
Style Period: Northern Renaissance
Place of Origin: Salzburg (present-day Austria)
Repository: Museum für angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts), Vienna, Austria
Hans Conrad Bodmer and his Family at the Table
Type: painting
Materials/Techniques: oil on canvas
Artist: attrib. Heinrich Sulzer
Culture: Swiss
Date/Period: 1643/Northern Renaissance
Style Period: Northern Renaissance
Place of Origin: Zurich, Switzerland
Repository: Schweizerisches Landesmuseum (Swiss National Museum), Zurich, Switzerland
Platter (in the style rustique)
Type: platter
Materials/Techniques: lead-glazed earthenware
Dimensions: Overall: 20 1/2 x 15 5/8 x 2 13/16 in., 5.5 lb.
Artist: Bernard Palissy (and workshop?)
Culture: French
Date/Period: last quarter 16th century/Northern Renaissance
Style Period: Northern Renaissance, rustique
Place of Origin: Paris, France
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The “Merkel” Table-piece
Type: table ornament
Materials/Techniques: silver, parcel gilt, enamel/etching
Dimensions: H. 99 cm
Artist: Wenzel Jamnitzer
Culture: German
Date/Period: 1549/Northern Renaissance
Style Period: Northern Renaissance
Place of Origin: Nuremberg, Germany
Repository: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Plate from Perspectiva Corporum Regularium
Type: work on paper
Materials/Techniques: etching
Author: Wenzel Jamnitzer
Engraver: Jost Ammen
Culture: German
Date/Period: 1568/Northern Renaissance
Style Period: Northern Renaissance
Place of Origin: Nuremberg, Germany
Repository: various
The “Wrangelschrank”
Type: cabinet, case furniture
Materials/Techniques: inlay, intarsia
Creator: attrib. to Leonard Strohmeier
Designer: imagery after Lorenz Stör
Culture: German
Date/Period: 1566/Northern Renaissance
Style Period: Northern Renaissance
Place of Origin: Augsburg, Germany
Repository: Museum f. Kunst und Kultur (Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History), Münster, Germany
Danaë Tapestry
Type: tapestry, textile
Materials/Techniques: wool, silk, and metal-wrapped thread
Artist: Claude Badouin et al.
Designer: imagery after Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco Primaticcio
Culture: French
Date/Period: ca. 1540-50/Northern Renaissance
Style Period: Northern Renaissance
Place of Origin: unknown; from a set of woven copies of wall decorations of Galerie Francois Premier at Fontainebleau
Repository: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Chimney Piece and Overmantel (Main Hall)
Type: architectural element
Materials/Techniques: stucco
Culture: English
Date/Period: ca. 1600/Northern Renaissance
Style Period: Northern Renaissance
Location: South Wraxall Manor, Wiltshire, England
Cup in the Form of Daphne
Type: cup
Materials/Techniques: cast, chased, and partially gilded silver, coral, semi-precious stones
Artist: Wenzel Jamnitzer
Culture: German
Date/Period: ca. 1570/Northern Renaissance
Style Period: Northern Renaissance
Place of Origin: Nuremberg, Germany
Repository: Chateau d’Ecouen, Écouen, Ile-de-France, France
