Week 5: Chapter 18, Northern Europe & Spain (1500-1600) Flashcards
(10 cards)
Knight, Death & the Devil
Drürer (German), 1513
Protestant Imagery: not a saint painting (God impervious to Death & Devil)
- engraving
- knight going out on his horse.. “armed” with his faith
The Isenheim Altarpiece
Grünewald (German), 1515
catholic commission for Hospital of St. Anthony in Germany
- St. Anthony: vengeful dispenser of justice with disease & healer, teach lessons of Christ’s suffering
- grotesque depictions of disease and suffering
The French Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger (German), 1533
oil & tempera on wood
-close close attention to details (makes it an example of N. European painting)
- Jean de Dinteville & Georges de Selve
- 16th cent. interest in perspectival correctness in the North
- ports affirming wealth and status/religious allegories
- compositional divides
- instruments of science, navigation, and astronomy (signs of European civilization spreading globally: broken string on lute- implies religious discord)
The Money Changer
Massys (Flemish), 1514
- oil on wood
- religious allegory (Protestant)
- wife is more interested in her husband counting his money than in her prayer book, social statement
engraving
transfer of incised image on a metal plate to paper
- makes art affordable (like prints!)
- Drürer an aggressive entrepreneur
allegory
a symbol
communicates a message by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation
anamorphic
(image of skull)
-distortion or foreshortening of an image- viewable with a special mirror or by viewing painting at an angle (like Maccacio’s Holy Trinity and the skeleton)
momento mori
reminder of mortality, encourage a faithful and devout life (ex: skull & crucifix)
Caterina Van Hemessen
first known N. European self-portrait of a woman (trained by her father)
Lavinia Teerlinc (Flemish)
painted 16th cent. mini portraitures (Lady Katherine Grey, 1555-1560) meant to be worn
-was a court painter in England for Henry VIII & Queen Elizabeth
