Late Renaissance in Northern Europe & Spain

16th Century

Matthias Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece (closed), oil on wood panel, 1510-15, Musee d’Unterlinden, Colmar

Isenheim Altarpiece (first opening)

Albrecht Dürer,Self-Portrait Oil on wood panelc. 1500Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Albrecht DürerFour Horsemen of the Apocalypse Woodcut15 ½ X 11⅛" 1497–98The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Albrecht DürerAdam and Eve Engraving9⅞ X 7⅝" 1504

Albrecht DürerFour Apostles Oil on wood paneleach panel 7'½" X 2'6" 1526

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Nymph of the Spring, Oil on panel19 X 28½“, c. 1537, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Albrecht AltdorferDanube Landscape Oil on vellum on wood panelc. 1525Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Jean ClouetFrancis I Oil and tempera on wood panel1525–30Louvre, Paris

El GrecoBurial of Count Orgaz Oil on canvas16' X 11'10" 1586Church of Santo Tomé, Toledo, Spain

El GrecoView of Toledo Oil on canvasc. 1610The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Return of the Hunters , oil on wood panel, 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fall of Icarus, oil on panel transferred to canvas,c. 1555–56, Konenklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van Belgie, Brussels

Hans Holbein the YoungerHenry VIII Oil on wood panel1540Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome

Attributed to Levina Bening TeerlincPrincess Elizabeth Oil on oak panelc. 1559The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, England.

Pierre Lescot, West Wing of the Cour Carré, Palais du Louvre, Begun 1546, Paris

Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera, El Escorial 1563–84, Madrid (Detail from an anonymous 18th-century paintin)g

Robert Smythson, Hardwick Hall, Shrewsbury 1591–97, England

High Great Chamber,Hardwick Hall