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Category: Renaissance Art
Pieter Bruegel and the First Modern Landscape
The First Modern Landscape The Metropolitan Museum of Art calls this painting a “watershed in the history of Western art”[1] and the “first modern landscape”.[6]. Because of the new humanist lens through which Pieter Bruegel the Elder viewed his world, landscape painting was no longer limited to backgrounds for mythological or religious illustrations. Who Was…
Sandro Botticelli: La Primavera, Spring (1481–82)
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Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece II
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Fra Angelico: Annunciation (1438–45)
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Wedding (1567)
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Pieter Brueghel the Younger: The Wedding Procession (1627)
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Joos van Cleve (att.): The Lamentation
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Jacopo Ligozzi: Christ Carrying the Cross
The Power of Narrative Painting Much has been written about Jacopo Ligozzi’s Christ Carrying the Cross, a dramatic narrative portrayal of Christ surrounded by his persecutors and onlookers on the way to Calvary. I did not understand the power of this painting until studying the enlarged details in the face of Christ. With close proximity,…
Albrecht Dürer: Saint Eustace (c.1501)
“According to the legend, a Roman soldier called Placidas saw a vision of the crucified Christ appear between the antlers of a stag he was hunting. Upon hearing God’s voice spoken by the animal, ‘O Placidas, why pursuest thou me?’” Even if you don’t know the name, chances are you’ve seen a reproduction of one…
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Harvesters (1565)
The First Modern Landscape The Harvesters, painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565, represents “a watershed in the history of western art” at at time when “the religious pretext for landscape painting has been suppressed in favor of a new humanism, and the unidealized description of the local scene is based on natural observations.”…
Pieter Bruegel and the First Modern Landscape
The Metropolitan Museum of Art calls this painting a “watershed in the history of Western art”[1] and the “first modern landscape”.[6]. Because of the new humanist lens through which Pieter Bruegel the Elder viewed his world, landscape painting was no longer limited to backgrounds for mythological or religious illustrations.
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