Tag: 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…

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Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece II

Read More Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece at wikiwand Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece at Smarthistory Matthias Grünewald at wikiwand See More Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece at Unterlinden Museum Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece at wikimedia References Dr. Sally Hickson, “Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece,” in Smarthistory, April 27, 2023, accessed June 24, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/grunewald-isenheim-altarpiece/. Thanks for Visiting ✝️ ~Sunnyside

Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece I

“The outer wings of the Isenheim Altarpiece were opened for important festivals of the liturgical year, particular those in honour of the Virgin Mary. Thus are revealed four scenes: the left wing represents the Annunciation during which the archangel Gabriel comes to announce to Mary that she will give birth to Jesus, the son of…

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Wedding (1567)

Read More The Peasant Wedding at wikiwand The Peasant Wedding at Google Arts and Culture If, like me, you can’t keep all these Brueghels straight, go to Brueghel Family Tree Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside

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.”…

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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.