15TH - 16TH CENTURIES

NORTHERN & ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

Northern Renaissance ART:-Centered in Germany, France and the Netherlands.

-Flanders-capital of this movement

-”Northern” means “North from Italy”.

-Architecture was very important and present on paintings.

-Intricate detail over anatomical perfection

-Domestic interiors, portraits, religious scenesAttention to surface detail, naturalism and symbolic meanings.

-Artists were very concerned in how their artwork looked like. Minute surface detail.

-COLOR was very important above and beyond form.

-Paintings were made with oil paints over wood panels.

Italian Renaissance ART:-Centered in Italy.

-Florence-capital of this movement.

-Classical, Mythological and religious scenes.

_Architecture not as important as in the Northern renaissance.

-Symmetrical, balanced, good sense of mass, linear perspective.

-Figures with mass and volume, knowledge of underlying anatomy.

-Artists were more interested in principles of composition (perspective, proportion, anatomy) than in how their artwork looked like. Not as detail. -Fresco, tempera, oil.

Notorious Artists :From the Northern Renaissance:

1. Jan Van Eyck (1395-1441)

2. Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516)

3. Van der Weyden (1399-1464)

4. Hans Memling (1430-1494)

From the Italian Renaissance:

5. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

6. Michelangelo (1475-1564)

7. Raphael (1483-1520)

8. Titian(1488-1576)

Jan van Eyck. Madonna of Chancellor Rolin.1435Oil on panel.

Jan van Eyck. The Arnolfini Marriage Portrait. 1434. Oil on panel.

Detail

Jan van Eyck. Portrait of Margaret van

Eyck.

Jan van Eyck. Portrait of Jan de Leeuw.

Hieronymus Bosch. The Garden of Earthly Delights. 1450-1505. Oil on panel

Detail-Left panel

Detail-central panel

Hans Memling. Man with a roman coin. Between 1470-80. Oil on panel.

Hans Memling. Portrait of Barbara van Vlaendenbergh.1480. Oil on panel.

Van der Weyden. Descent from the Cross. 1436. Oil on panel.

Michelangelo. Sistine Chapel. 1508-1512.Fresco.

Detail. The Creation of man.

Da Vinci.Mona Lisa1503-1507Oil on wood

Raphael.Sistine Madonna1513Oil on canvas

Titian. Bacchus and Ariadne. 1523. Oil on canvas.