The Renaissance north of the Alps.
1400 - 1500 (Renaissance)
Beginner's guide
Northern Renaissance artists perfected the use of oil paint and painted the world in minute detail.
- An introduction to the Northern Renaissance in the fifteenth century
- The Medieval and Renaissance altarpiece
- Introduction to Fifteenth-century Flanders
- Introduction to Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century
- Northern Renaissance art under Burgundian rule
- Biblical Storytelling: Illustrating a Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Altarpiece
- The Norfolk Triptych and how it was made
Places
Burgundian and adjacent territories
England, France, and Tyrol
All content | Northern Renaissance 15th century
Unicorns, fretting angels, mysterious portraits, the Virgin Mary weeping—the Northern Renaissance rewards those who look closely and empathize.
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