Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Chapter 18 Study Guide


High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain

Northern Renaissance
  • Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, c. 1510-1515
  • Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, 1505-1510
  • Durer, Melencolia I, 1514
  • Durer, Self-Portrait, 1500
  • Cranach the Elder, Judgment of Paris, 1530
  • Holbein, The French Ambassadors, 1533
  • Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow, 1565
  • El Greco, Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586

1. What detail in Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece acknowledges the patients at the hospital for the which the work was commissioned?
2. Who was the first non-Italian artist to achieve international fame? What artistic medium allowed for the widespread distribution of his work?
3. Who was Martin Luther and what was the Protestant Reformation?
4. How does Durer show his support for Lutheranism (Protestantism) in his painting Four Apostles?
5. What optical illusion appears in Holbein’s The French Ambassadors?
6. What is a genre scene?

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