16th Century Northern Europe

The Age of Reformation – 16th Century Northern Europe • • • • • • • • • • • •

Polyptych* Predella* Triptych* Grisaille* Rivers of Paradise = Pison, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates Martin Luther* Ninety-Five Theses* Indulgences* Iconoclasm = Ban on the production of religious imagery. Sometimes also the destruction of religious imagery Canon = A rule, for example, of proportions Central Vertical Axis* Still Life*

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Vanitas* Memento Mori* Anamorphic* Chateau = French for castle Ciborium = container used to hold the Host for Holy Communion Ovid = Roman poet from 1st Century BCE/CE Icarus Daedalus Hubris = In Greek a combination of pride and unrealistic ambition usually leads to a fall/failure Counterreformation* Deesis*

*Pay attention to these words in your reading and in lecture as they are significant and important.

Exam/quiz questions may come from anywhere in the chapter and the lecture.

Images from your textbook are identified with the Image number, I advise you to fill in the name, artist, date, material, and artistic period BEFORE you come to class.

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Matthias Gr端newald, Annunciation, Virgin and Child with Angels, Resurrection (Isenheim Altarpiece Open 2nd level), 1510-15, High Renaissance in Northern Europe (a/k/a Reformation), Oil on Panel

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Albrecht D端rer, Self Portrait, 1498, High Renaissance Northern Europe (a/k/a Reformation), Oil on Wood, Museo del Prado, Spain

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Albrecht Altdorfer, Danube Landscape, 1520-1525, High Renaissance Northern Europe (a/ k/a Reformation), Parchment on Panel, Alte Pinakothek, Munich

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, 1554-1555, High Renaissance Northern Europe (a/k/a Reformation), Oil on Panel transferred to Canvas, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

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