Northern Renaissance
A style that perfected the use of oil paint with a view to realism and represented material objects with pristine clarity.
Northern Renaissance
A style that perfected the use of oil paint with a view to realism and represented material objects with pristine clarity.
Basics to get you started
Italian and Northern Renaissances
Art and power: the Dukes of Burgundy
15th-century Flanders, an introduction
What is Melencolia?
Confronting power and violence in the renaissance nude
Henry VIII and the Reformation
Africa in the European imagination
Iconoclasm in the Netherlands in the 16th century
The role of the workshop in late medieval and early modern northern Europe
The life of Christ in medieval and Renaissance art
Introduction to the Protestant Reformation (part 1 of 4): Setting the stage
Introduction to the Protestant Reformation (part 4 of 4): The Counter-Reformation
Introduction to the Protestant Reformation (part 2 of 4): Martin Luther
Introduction to the Protestant Reformation (part 3 of 4): Varieties of Protestantism
The Protestant Reformation
Atmospheric perspective explained
Contrapposto explained
Foreshortening explained
Sex, Power, and Violence in the Renaissance Nude
Why commission artwork during the renaissance?
Renaissance watercolors: materials and techniques
Who’s who? How to recognize saints…
The Council of Trent and the call to reform art
Manuscripts: major works of art
The Medieval and Renaissance Altarpiece
Tiny timeline: global Europe
Types of renaissance patronage
Works of Art
Artists
Albrecht Dürer, Self-portrait, Study of a Hand and a Pillow (recto); Six Studies of Pillows (verso), 1493, pen and brown ink, 10 15/16 x 7 15/16″ / 27.8 x 20.2 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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