CategoriesStyles and Movements
Northern Renaissance
Painting, sculpture and printmaking north of the Alps in the 15th and 16th centuries, from Flemish oil painting to Dürer, Holbein and Bruegel.
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In the early 15th century Flemish painters developed a way of seeing that owed little to Italy. Working in layered oil glazes on oak panels, Jan van Eyck captured the reflections in a convex mirror and the pile of a carpet in the Arnolfini Portrait (1434), and Rogier van der Weyden gave grief a sharp, sculptural force. Minute detail, symbolic objects in domestic interiors and portraits of merchants and donors mark the style.
Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece (c. 1475), sent to Florence, impressed Italian painters, while Albrecht Dürer absorbed Italian ideas of proportion in Venice and worked them into engravings such as Adam and Eve (1504). The Reformation cut demand for altarpieces across much of the north, and painters turned to portraits, landscape and daily life, as in Hans Holbein the Younger's The Ambassadors (1533) and Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Hunters in the Snow (1565).
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