Transcript NorthernRenaissance

Mannerism
A style that developed in the
sixteenth century ( 1526-1600, after
the sack of Rome )as a reaction to
the classical rationality and balanced
harmony of the High Renaissance;
They rejected many conventions of
the Renaissance and their work
could be characterized by the
dramatic use of space and light,
exaggerated colour, elongation of
figures, and distortions of
perspective, scale, proportion.
They were a very individual and
expressive group that had a variety
of styles.
Parmigianino's Madonna with the
Long Neck
El Greco (1541- 1614)
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born Crete, studied Italy moved to Spain. His
name is Spanish for ‘the Greek’.
influenced by Parmigianiomo (who painted
Madonna of the Long Neck).
The Burial of Count Orgaz
(1586)
Top of Painting:
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Eternal Heaven, Christ,
Bottom of Painting:
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Angels, 16th century Spaniards, Count Orgaz,
Greco’s friends, his son on the bottom left
Uniting feature:
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Angel bearing the soul, looks like a doll, priest
looking up, Mary looking down
Known for:
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elongated bodies,
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strong sense of movement,
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flickering light,
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bright colours (some say acid colours)
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intense emotion.
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Technique: consisted of the application of thick
oil paint over a red ochre gessoed animal-skin
canvas. The light areas were blocked in white or
gray oil paint. He applied the paint in broken
short brush strokes which were almost
impressionistic.
Mannerism in El Greco's jarring
"acid" color sense, his figures'
elongated and tortured anatomy,
the irrational perspective and light
of his breathless and crowded
composition, and obscure and
troubling symbolism
Northern Renaissance
Main differences between the Northern Renaissance and the Italian Renaissance:
Northern Renaissance
 Realism
 Attention to detail
 Everyday life, everyday
objects
 Symbolism in everyday
objects
Italian Renaissance
 Idealized beauty
 antiquity
Northern Countries
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These Northern countries were known for
certain achievements (strengths) during the
Renaissance:
Low Countries (Belgium, Holland): oil paint,
allowed them to paint in detail
Germany: art centre of Europe
France: excelled in architecture during this time
Spain: used wealth and privilege to draw artist to
their court.
Jan Van Eyck (1390-1491)
The Arnolfini Marriage
size- 32” x 23” !!!!! This is not a large
painting.
Meaning of the following symbols:
 Raised right hand- Fidelity
 Dog- Fidelity and Loyalty((the common canine
name Fido originated from the Latin fido, "to trust").
Ripened peaches- Fertility
 Clogs cast aside- standing on holy ground
 St. Margaret on bedpost- saint of
childbirth
 Wisk broom- domestic care
 Lit candle- oath of marriage, devotion of
newlyweds, seeing eye of G-d
 Crystal beads- Virgin Mary
What is written above the mirror:
 Jan Van Eyck was here in 1434 (he was a
witness of the marriage)
Who is in the mirror?
 Jan Van Eyck and another witness
What is around the mirror?
 10 scenes of Christ’s passion
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No she is not pregnant, it was the style
of the day
Arnolfini Wedding
More on this painting:
High realism, unity, meticulous detail, realistic
light coming from the left.
When was this painted in relation to other Italian
Renaissance paintings?
 1434- Donatello’s David
 60 years before Leonardo’s “Last Supper”
 100 years before Michelangelo’s “Last
Judgment”
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Remember this artist from earlier in
the semester?
BOTERO FERNANDO (1932)
He also did his take on this painting.
For the fashion students in the class
other Paintings by the artist
Rogier der Weyden- Portrait of a lady (1455)
Compare it to Mona Lisa (1503-5) ? What personality do you think she
has? What station in life? What’s the feeling of the painting?
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sharply contrasting outlines of lips and nose, or his emphasis on the
slenderness of limbs - idealise his sitters, lending them a greater sophistication
Hieronymus Bosch Dutch (14501516)
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Great imagination
World of weird images and puzzling symbols
Packed with people (mostly naked, many things going on)
Left Panel- Garden of Eden
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Amid exotic animals, plants
and landscape, God is
introducing Adam to Eve
God’s beautiful creation
Middle Panel-Garden of Delights
•Fantastic landscape
•Humanities constant search
to satisfy its earthly delights
with overindulgence and sin
Right Panel- The Garden of
Satan
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Bosch version of Hell
Hundreds of figures are
being tortured while the
eggshell human tree trunk of
Satan in the center
supervises it all
The overindulgences and sin
eventually lead people to
Hell
Bosch is very pessimistic, no
chance of salvation is shown
The last
Judgement
GLUTTONY
SLOTH
Death
AVARICE
Radiant all seeing
eye of God
LUST
ENVY
VANITY
Hell
Seven Deadly
Sins and the
Four Last
Things-14801500-decorated
table top for King
Phillip II of Spain
ANGER
Heaven
Pieter Brugel-1525-1569
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Painted peasants in their daily activities in ordinary landscapes
How has Brugel created depth in the return of the Hunters?
Dürer, Albrecht (b. 14711528,Germany)
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German painter, printmaker, draughtsman
and art theorist, generally regarded as the
greatest German Renaissance artist.
Dürer traveled, and found, he says, more
appreciation abroad than at home. The
Italian influence on his art was of a
particularly Venetian strain
He had an arranged marriage, and friends
considered his wife, Agnes, to be mean and
bad-tempered, though what their real marital
relations were, nobody can tell. For all his
apparent openness, Dürer is a reserved man,
and perhaps it is this rather sad reserve that
makes his work so moving.
Self-Portrait at 26 (1498)
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Any similarities to the Mona Lisa (painted
1503-5) ?
Printmaker- woodcuts and copper engraving- Guttenburg invented
the printing press in 1446)
St. Michael's fight
against the dragon
1498 (330 kB);
Woodcut, 39.2 x 28.3
cm (15 x 11 1/8 in)
The Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse
1498 ; woodcut
The Knight, Death
and The Devil 1514
25x19 cm
Copper Engraving
A Young Hare
1502 (140 kB);
Watercolor and
gouache on paper