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16th- 17th Europe
16th C Northern Renaissance Humanism expressed in observation
of daily world and importance of human subjects (portraiture, detail, surfaces, human suffering of God)
Rising of modern cash-based, international trading economy with secular patronage
Changes in subject matter Use of new technologies (printmaking)
Protestant Reformation• 1517, 95 Theses, Wittenberg (Germany)• Martin Luther• Central ideas and ramifications
– Faith alone saves– Breaking up political power of Church (Henry
VIII)– Role of print media (new technologies)– Against images in church; patronage changes
• “Counter-Reformation”– Catholic effort to win back the faithful– “Faith Alone Saves, Not Without Works”
Quentin Metsys, Money-changer and his wife, 1510 (genre picture of merchant class)
Portrait of a Notary, Quentin Metsys
Peter Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow, det.
Protestant Reformation
1517, 95 Theses, Wittenberg (Germany)
Martin Luther Central ideas and ramifications
Faith alone saves Breaking up political power of Church
(Henry VIII) Against images in church; patronage
changes
Baroque Art & Power Politics (the 17th Century)
Catholic Counter-Reformation Council of Trent, 1545-1563 Re-assert the authority of Church- St.
Peter Emphasize personal faith, along
w/works “Faith alone saves, not without works”
Emotional appeal like that of Reformation
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Allegory of Law & Grace, 1530
Woodcut block & print
Durer woodcut block & print, Samson rending the lion, c. 1497
Albrecht Durer, Adam & EveEngraving
Hans Holbein, The French Ambassadors, 1533
Anamorphic perspective
The “Hollow Bone”
Detail, sundials & navigation instruments
Lute, Globe, hymnal Symbolism of everyday objects
Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, 1510
closed
Sts. Sebastian (plague) & Anthony (monasticism)
Det., st. anthony
1st opening (2nd view) w/predella closed
Isenheim Altar, 2nd Opening
Temptation of Anthony
Paul & Anthony in Desert
Det., Sts. Paul & Anthony in the Desert
What the full altarpiece might have looked like
Temptation of St. Anthony
Rubens, Raising of the Cross, 1610
Rubens, Samson & Delilah, 1610