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Albrecht DürerGerman looked to Italy for
inspiration

• Paintings
• Precise complex line
• Linear perspective
• Woodcuts
• Drawn on wood
• Carved, inked, printed
• Line Engraving
• Directly on copper
• No drawing
• Extremely difficult

Self-Portrait
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Knight, Death, and the DevilAlbrecht Durer
Apocalypse Series struggle between good and evil
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Adam Eve Engraving

• Durers Art reflects
• Return to classical ideals of beauty and
  proportion
• New quest for knowledge and scientific precision.

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Mathis Grünewald

• Traditional religious themes of Medieval Germany
• No ideal beauty as in the Renaissance
• Never went to Italy or cared for the art
• Dismissed proportion and perspective
• His art showed emotion
• Crucifixion anguish of Christ on the cross
• Resurrection beauty of Christ

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Resurrection
Little or no background. Dark except for the
light of Christ Message
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Albrecht Altdorfer

• Painted landscapes
• Probably the first instance of a Renaissance
  painting with no people
• Beauty of nature deemed worthy of art
• Battle of Alexander and Darius
  Futility of human existence in comparison
  with mountains and rivers.

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Hieronymus Bosch Pieter Bruegel

• Netherlands
• Pessimistic view of human nature
• Satirized human behavior
• Bizarre scenes
• Salvation is possible through Christ

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Garden of Earthly Delights H. Bosch Creation of
man and the Garden of Eden
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Hell G. Bosch The downfall of man
will be lust. Hell is pathetic and sad.
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Peasants Dancing
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Art in Elizabethan England

• Artists were not invited to England
• Long distance away
• Religious and political turmoil
• Sculpture and painting suffered
• Hans Holbein the Younger sent by Henry VIII to
  paint possible brides

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Anne of Cleves by Hans Holbein the Younger
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Nicholas Hilliard

• Only English painter of note.
• Best known for miniatures
• Portraits of Queen Elizabeth
• Regal and imposing, not realistic

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Theatre of England

• Theatre was the achievement of England
• Appealed to those from all social classes
• Large playhouses
• Christopher Marlowe
• Great poet but killed at age 29 in a bar fight
• Dr. Faustus (Faust)

• William Shakespeare
• Taming of the Shrew (comedy)
• Male chauvinism and women's liberation

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Growth of Science

• William Gilbert earth is a magnet
• William Harvey circulatory system
• John Napier logarithms
• Paracelsus basis for modern medicine
• Francis Bacon try to free science from the
  grasp of Aristotle

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Nicholas Copernicus

• Earth and planets revolve around the sun. The
  earth is not the center of the universe.
• Question everything
• The sun may appear to move around the earth, but
  things arent always as they seem.
• Frowned upon by religion
• Bible says earth is center of universe