Albrecht Dürer

One of Bruegel’s most alluring landscape paintings is titled, Landscape with the Flight into Egypt. Like many of Bruegel’s other compositions, this small landscape emphasizes the role nature plays in the lives of contemporary men and women. The jagged coastline along the estuary or lake stretches into the distance. The color palette of blues, greens, and browns, complement each other very well in that it creates an innovative way to give the impression of depth. Right off the bat, the viewer…

In 1430, Jan van Eyck painted "The man in a blue cap" using the principal medium in that time, oil on wood. Originally painted to be in the Brukenthal National Museum, is a very small piece (22.5 cm x 16.6 cm with frame and 19.1 cm x 13.2 cm without frame) , This piece still in the same place it was painted. The man is shown in three-quarters view with his face dramatically lit by light falling from the left. This device provides both striking contrasts of light and shadow and draws the…

Northern Art focused on fine details and color, and the everyday life of peasants. Northern art was predominantly Gothic, but over time began to adopt some of the Italian characteristics. To illustrate, the ‘Adoration of the Magi’ created by Albrecht Durer, shows the minute details used by Northern artists as well as the careful portrayal of the human form used by Italian artists. Italian art focused on wealth and aristocracy and showed how powerful and religious people were. Trade…

Albrecht Pfister The Pleasures of Education (1777, Rococo). Louis Marin Bonnet Reference to scientific subject matter Another relationship between science and art during this period was the inclusion of scientific subject matter in paintings. Some examples…

invention to help spread the accessibility of them. In the age of the Northern Renaissance art saw a major invention in the way of printmaking, which had a similar impact on the reproduction of artwork as the printing press did to literary works. Albrecht Durer of Nurembery was the “unassailed leader in Northern Renaissance printmaking and one of the finest graphic artists of all time” (Fiero 231). Another artists credited with advancements…

Albrecht Durer was a master at this technique. His work was reproduced in books spreading this technique across Europe. At this time, northern Europeans also created innovative music techniques. Prior to the Renaissance music was monophonic. Northern Europeans…

This painting is composed of three panels picturing different scenes of the New Testament: The Annunciation, The Adoration of Shepherds and the Flight into Egypt. The left and central panels depict the subjects in what seems to be a Gothic Temple. This is not a surprising characteristic due to the tradition in Northern Renaissance paintings illustrate characters from the Bible in a contemporary earthly environment that is known by the artist. This can be perceived in the scenery he set the…

1) Albrecht Durer, Melancholia I, 1514, engraving. The expressive qualities of complexity, in this painting, are given by the combination of stippling, hatching, and crosshatching, they were also used to create texture and depth. Horizontal, diagonal and vertical lines are present in this painting associated with distance and the distant horizon. In this artwork, the artist used both, straight lines and contour lines, and a mixture of shades. I found that the areas that are clearer have very…

Throughout time people are observed becoming offended by the same types of images, for the same reasons. Although societal convention and practices might change throughout time and between locations, there are clear trends in what the populous finds to be offensive. Madame X was a painting by John Singer painted in 1884. This painting features and attractive woman in a long, sultry, dress. She is posed looking away, but also stepping forward. This portrait was considered one of the most…

There are many primary sources you can choose to read or see to better understand the European history from the years 1300-1700. The three I chose are very good because they all talk about the history but from different views and occurrences. The first source I would refer to is the Italian Renaissance Reader. From 1300-1700 was when the Renaissance occurred and this book gives you an idea of who all the best writers, scholars, painters, poets, architects, and power family names were. Each…