Northern Renaissance Artists
Old Masters, Painters & Sculptors From
Fifteenth/Sixteenth Century Holland, Flanders & Germany.
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Northern Renaissance Artists (c.1430-1580)Contents • Northern
Renaissance Painters: The Netherlands The greatest exponents of Northern Renaissance art came from two main areas: (1) The Netherlands, including Flanders with its rich trading centres like Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges; and Holland with its art schools at Haarlem, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Leyden and Delft. (2) Germany, especially Catholic Bavaria. |
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Northern Renaissance Painters: The Netherlands Netherlandish Renaissance artists include: Jan Van Eyck, joint creator with his brother Hubert of the highly realistic Ghent altarpiece (finished 1432), and the first master of oil painting, known for his luminous colours and fine detail in works like The Arnolfini Marriage (1434); Robert Campin (1378-1444) noted for the Merode Altarpiece (1425); his pupil, the expressive realist Roger van der Weyden (1400-64), one of the most influential religious narrative painters of his day, famous for works like Descent from the Cross (1435); Weyden's pupil Hans Memling (1433-94), best known for his small scale altarpieces such as the Last Judgment Triptych (1471, Museum Narodowe, Gdansk) and the Donne Triptych (1477-80, National Gallery, London) as well as small-scale devotional pictures and portraits. |
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See also: Hugo van der Goes (1440-82), one of the most innovative but tragic of Flemish painters, best-known for his masterpiece the Portinari Altarpiece; the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) famous for religious fantasy paintings illustrating the sins of Man, such as The Hay Wain Triptych (1500), The Garden of Earthly Delights (1510) and Ecce Homo (1515); Joachim Patenier (1480-1525), the first true landscape painter; and Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569) noted for complex landscape-based narrative paintings such as The Tower of Babel (1563). Other Flemish painters include: Dirk Bouts the Elder (1415-75), Petrus Christus (active 1444-72), Gerrit David (1460-1523), Jan Provost (1465-1529), Quentin Massys (1465-1530), Jan Gossaert (1478-1532), Joachim Patenier (1480-1525), and Joos van Cleve (1490-1540). For a list of the most important works, see: Greatest Renaissance Paintings. Northern Renaissance Painters: Germany German Renaissance painters include: Stephan Lochner (1400-51) noted for The Last Judgement (1440s); the printmaker Martin Schongauer (post 1455-91) known for his Madonna in the Rose Garden (1473) and over 100 signed engravings; Matthias Grunewald (1470-1528) the intensely devout creator of The Isenheim Altarpiece (1510-15), whose dramatic style of art influenced later schools of Expressionism; Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), the finest painter and printmaker of the Northern Renaissance, known for his virtuoso draftsmanship, self-portraits, nature studies, woodcuts and engravings; Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) known for his Portrait of Doctor Johann Schoner (1529) and Portrait of Martin Luther (1543); Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538) best remembered for Battle of Issus (1529) and his innovative etchings/engravings; Durer's pupil Hans Baldung (1484-1545) best known for his intense colour and woodcuts with strong chiaroscuro; and Hans Holbein The Younger (1497-1543), famous for his portraits like The Merchant Georg Gisze (1532), The Ambassadors (1533), and Henry VIII (1540).
Northern Renaissance Sculptors Sculptors of the Northern Renaissance include: Tilman Riemenschneider (1460-1531), the greatest wood-carver of the Northern Renaissance, noted for his exquisite altarpieces as well as individual works like The Head Of St Anne (c.1500); Veit Stoss (1477-1533), the finest wood sculptor after Riemenscheider, known for sculptures like Raphael and Tobias (1516), as well as altarpieces for churches across Europe. Other important Northern renaissance carvers include: Hans Multscher (1400-67) noted for the Wurzacher (1437) and Sterzing (1457) altarpieces; Michael Pacher (1430-98) creator of The St Wolfgang Altarpiece (1471-81); and Gregor Erhart (c.1460-1540) who produced the famous Mary Magdalene ("La Belle Allemande") (c.1500). |
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List of Northern Renaissance Painters and Sculptors See below for a chronological list of other famous artists of the Northern Renaissance. Unless otherwise indicated, the speciality is fine art painting. Master Bertram 1340-1414 German |
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Peter Vischer the Elder 1460-1529 German
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