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Albrecht DrerGerman looked to Italy for inspiration

Paintings: Precise & complex line Linear perspective

WoodcutsWoodcuts Drawn on wood Carved, inked, printed

Line Engraving Directly on copper No drawing Extremely difficult

Self-Portrait

Knight, Death, and the Devil

Albrecht Durer

Apocalypse Series: struggle between good and evil

Adam & Eve

EngravingDurers Art reflects:

1. Return to classical ideals of beauty and proportion

2. New quest for knowledge and scientific precision.

Mathis Grnewald

Traditional religious themes of Medieval Germany No ideal beauty as in the Renaissance Never went to Italy or cared for the art Never went to Italy or cared for the art Dismissed proportion and perspective His art showed emotion

Crucifixion anguish of Christ on the cross Resurrection beauty of Christ

Little or no background.

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Resurrection

Dark except for the light of

Christ

Message

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Albrecht Altdorfer

Painted landscapes

Probably the first instance of a Renaissance painting with no people

f d dBeauty of nature deemed worthy of art

Battle of Alexander and Darius

Futility of human existence in comparison

with mountains and rivers.

Hieronymus Bosch

Pieter Bruegel

Netherlands

Pessimistic view of human nature

Satirized human behavior

Bizarre scenes

Salvation is possible through Christ

Garden of Earthly Delights

H B hH. Bosch

Creation of man and the Garden of Eden

HellG. Bosch

The downfall of man will be lust. Hell is

pathetic and sad.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Peasants Dancing

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Art in Elizabethan England

Artists were not invited to England Long distance away Religious and political turmoil Religious and political turmoil Sculpture and painting suffered Hans Holbein the Younger sent by Henry

VIII to paint possible brides

Anne of Cleves by Hans Holbein the Younger

Nicholas Hilliard

Only English painter of note.

Best known for miniatures

Portraits of Queen Elizabeth Regal and imposing,

not realistic

Theatre of England Theatre was the achievement of England Appealed to those from all social classes Large playhouses Christopher Marlowe

b kill d i b fi h Great poet but killed at age 29 in a bar fight Dr. Faustus (Faust)

William Shakespeare

Taming of the Shrew (comedy)

Male chauvinism and women's liberation

Growth of Science William Gilbert: earth is a magnet William Harvey: circulatory system John Napier: logarithms Paracelsus: basis for modern medicine Francis Bacon: try to free science from the

grasp of Aristotle Sir Isaac Newton: Gravity

Nicholas Copernicus

Earth and planets revolve around the sun. The earth is not the center of the universe.

Question everythingQuestion everything The sun may appear to move around the

earth, but things arent always as they seem. Frowned upon by religion

Bible says earth is center of universe