Northern Renaissance

Examples of Northern Renaissance in the following topics:

• The Northern Renaissance

  • The Northern Renaissance describes the Renaissance in northern Europe.
  • In some areas, the Northern Renaissance was distinct from the Italian Renaissance in its centralization of political power.
  • As in Italy, the decline of feudalism opened the way for the cultural, social, and economic changes associated with the Renaissance in northern Europe.
  • Although Renaissance humanism and the large number of surviving classical artworks and monuments in Italy encouraged many Italian painters to explore Greco-Roman themes, Northern Renaissance painters developed other subject matters, such as landscape and genre painting.
  • As Renaissance art styles moved through northern Europe, they were adapted to local customs.

• Panel Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • The court of the Holy Roman Emperor played an important role in panel paintings during the Northern Renaissance.
  • The court of the Holy Roman Emperor, originally based in Prague, played an important role in supporting artists as patrons during the Northern Renaissance.
  • Albrech Durer is a well known artist of the Northern Italian Renaissance who found a patron in Emperor Maximillian I.

• Spanish Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • Spanish art of the Northern Renaissance was influenced by Netherthandish painting, due to shared economic and political connections.
  • Overall the Renaissance and subsequent Mannerist styles are hard to categorize in Spain, due to the mix of Netherlandish and Italian influences, and regional variations.
  • Apart from technical aspects, the themes and spirit of the Renaissance were modified to the Spanish culture and religious environment.
  • From the Renaissance style, he also frequently used sfumato modeling, and simple compositions but combined them with Netherlandish-style precision of details.
  • El Greco's most famous painting, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586-88) blends his signature style with the classical revival of the Renaissance and medieval renderings of the body.

• Art for Aristocrats

  • Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting represents the 16th century response to Italian Renaissance art in the Low Countries.
  • These artists span from the Antwerp Mannerists, such as Hieronymus Bosch, at the start of the 16th century to the late Northern Mannerists, such as Hendrik Goltzius and Joachim Wtewael, at the end of the century.
  • After 1550, the Flemish and Dutch painters begin to show more interest in nature, leading to a style that incorporates Renaissance elements, but remained far from the elegant lightness of Italian Renaissance art.
  • The Fall of Icarus (now in fact, considered a copy of a Bruegel work), although highly atypical in many ways, combines several elements of Northern Renaissance painting.
  • The Fall of Icarus, although highly atypical in many ways, combines several elements of Northern Renaissance painting.

• German Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • The German Renaissance is reflective of Italian and German influence in its paintings, and one is not present without the other.
  • Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.
  • His later paintings show how he pioneered and led the transformation of German art from the (Late) International Gothic to the Renaissance style.
  • Holbein the Elder was a pioneer and leader in the transformation of German art from the Gothic to the Renaissance style.
  • The next significant German artists worked in the rather artificial style of Northern Mannerism, which they had to learn in Italy or Flanders.

• Wood Sculpture

  • The sculpture of Veit Stoss and Tilman Riemenschneider show the evolution from the Gothic style to the styles of the Renaissance.
  • Veit Stoss (1450-1533), Tilman Riemenschneider (1460-1531), and Peter Vischer the Elder (1455-1529) are the most famous among the wood carvers of the German-speaking states of the Northern Renaissance.
  • Their long careers covered the transition between the Gothic and Renaissance periods, although their ornament often remained Gothic even after their compositions began to reflect Renaissance principles.
  • Veit Stoss was a leading German sculptor, mostly working in wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance.
  • Describe how the sculptures of Veit Stoss and Tilman Riemenschneider mark a transition between the Gothic and Renaissance styles.

• Spanish Architecture in the Northern Renaissance

  • Gothic, Renaissance, and Mannerist elements are all important to the architecture of Spain in the sixteenth century.
  • Gothic forms began to incorporate the classical style of the Renaissance in the last decades of the fifteenth century.
  • The austerity of the west façade of El Escorial is typical of the classicism that re-emerged during the Renaissance.
  • The compound of El Escorial contains features that conform to the austerity of Renaissance architecture throughout Europe while also anticipating the Baroque era.
  • Examine the influence of Gothic, Renaissance, and Mannerist elements in the architecture of Spain in the sixteenth century.

• French Architecture in the Northern Renaissance

  • Francis I (1515 - 1547) brought about such huge cultural changes in France that he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch.
  • He has been called France's original Renaissance monarch.
  • He commissioned the architect Gilles le Breton to build a château in the new Renaissance style.
  • Broadly speaking, at Fontainebleau the Renaissance was introduced to France.
  • It introduced the Italian Renaissance style to France.

• Italian Painting: 1200–1400

  • In the early Renaissance, painters began to embrace naturalistic styles, creating images with attention to form and space.
  • However, art in Florence and northern Italy during the period between 1200 and 1400 was still in transition; it was a bridge in Art History between the Medieval period and Byzantine and Gothic styles, and the Early Modern period and Renaissance styles.
  • Sometimes referred to as the proto-Renaissance period, art and architecture in northern Italy provided important hints at the trends that would take hold over the next centuries in the rest of Europe.
  • However, Cimabue made efforts to create space in this work, which would become an important aspect in Renaissance art.
  • Identify the prominent artists and styles in Italy during the Early Renaissance

• The High Renaissance

  • High Renaissance art is deemed as "High" because it is seen as the period in which the artistic aims and goals of the Renaissance reached their greatest application.
  • High Renaissance art is characterized by references to classical art and delicate application of developments from the Early Renaissance (such as on-point perspective).
  • His frescoes rank among the greatest works of Renaissance art.
  • Mannerism is an artistic style that emerged from the later years of the 16th century and lasted as a popular aesthetic style in Italy until about 1580, when the Baroque began to replace it (although Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe).
  • The term is also used to refer to some Late Gothic painters working in northern Europe from about 1500 to 1530, especially the Antwerp Mannerists, a group unrelated to the Italian movement.