Albrecht Drer

Knight,
Death, and
the Devil

German looked to Italy for inspiration

Paintings:
Precise & complex line
Linear perspective

Woodcuts

Albrecht Durer

Drawn on wood
Carved, inked, printed

Line Engraving
Directly on copper
No drawing
Extremely difficult

Apocalypse Series: struggle

between good and evil

Self-Portrait

Adam & Eve

Mathis Grnewald

Engraving
Durers Art reflects:
1. Return to classical
ideals of beauty
and proportion
2. New quest for
knowledge and
scientific
precision.

Traditional religious themes of Medieval Germany

No ideal beauty as in the Renaissance
Never went to Italy or cared for the art
Dismissed proportion and perspective
His art showed emotion
Crucifixion anguish of Christ on the cross
Resurrection beauty of Christ

Resurrection
Little or no
background.
Dark
D
k except
for the light of
Christ
Message

Albrecht
Altdorfer
Painted landscapes
Probably the first instance
of a Renaissance painting
with no people
Beauty off nature deemed
d
d
worthy of art
Battle of Alexander and
Darius
Futility of human
existence in comparison
with mountains and rivers.

Hieronymus Bosch
Pieter Bruegel
Netherlands
Pessimistic view of human nature
Satirized human behavior
Bizarre scenes
Salvation is possible through Christ

Garden of
Earthly Delights
H B
H.
Boschh
Creation of man and the
Garden of Eden

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Hell
G. Bosch

The downfall of
man will be lust. Hell is
pathetic and sad.

Peasants Dancing

Anne of Cleves by Hans Holbein the Younger

Art in Elizabethan England

Artists were not invited to England

Long distance away
Religious and political turmoil
Sculpture and painting suffered
Hans Holbein the Younger sent by Henry
VIII to paint possible brides

Nicholas
Hilliard
Only English painter
of note.
Best known for
miniatures
Portraits of Queen
Elizabeth
Regal and imposing,
not realistic

Theatre of England

Theatre was the achievement of England

Appealed to those from all social classes
Large playhouses
Christopher Marlowe
Great poet but
b kill
killedd at age 29 in
i a bar
b fight
fi h
Dr. Faustus (Faust)

William Shakespeare

Taming of the Shrew (comedy)

Male chauvinism and women's liberation

Growth of Science

Nicholas Copernicus

William Gilbert: earth is a magnet

William Harvey: circulatory system
John Napier: logarithms
Paracelsus: basis for modern medicine
Francis Bacon: try to free science from the
grasp of Aristotle
Sir Isaac Newton: Gravity

Earth and planets revolve around the sun.

The earth is not the center of the universe.
Question everything
The sun may appear to move around the
earth, but things arent always as they seem.
Frowned upon by religion

Bible says earth is center of universe