Western Europe During the Reformation, around 1560

Michelangelo Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel (1534-1541)

Mannerism

Pontormo Descent from

the Cross(1525-28)

Parmigianino Madonna with the Long Neck

(1535)

Paolo Veronese. Feast in the House of Levi. 1573. 18’ 3" × 42’.Venice

Jan and Hubert (?) van Eyck. Ghent Altarpiece (Open), Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. Completed 1432. 11’ 5 3/4" × 15’ 1 1/2”.

“Monuments Men” with panels from the altarpiece recovered at the end of the Second World War

Matthias Grünewald. Isenheim Altarpiece (Closed). c. 1510–1515. Colmar, Germany

Matthias Grünewald. Isenheim Altarpiece (First Opening). c. 1510–1515. Center panel 9’ 9 1/2" × 10’ 9” , each wing 8’ 2 1/2" × 3’ 1/2”.

Guttenberg Bible – printed with movable type (1453) Mainz, Germany

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Martin Luther (1533)

Key date: 95 theses, 1517

Wittenburg, Germany

Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and workshop. The City of Nuremberg. Nuremberg Chronicle, published by Anton Koberger in 1493.

Each page 18 1/2 × 12 3/4”. Edition at GVSU Special Collections

Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait (1500)

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Dürer, The Fall of Man, or Adam and Eve (1504)Engraving

Albrecht Dürer. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 1497–1498. 15 1/2 × 11 1/8”. Woodcut.

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Wittenberg Altarpiece (1547)

Albrecht Altdorfer, Danube Landscape, c. 1530.

Iconoclasm: Protestant destruction of art as part of Reformation in 1500s

Saint Peter’s BasilicaBaldacchino by Bernini (1624-33)

Pieter Jansz SaenredamChurch interior (1649)Netherlands

Pieter Jansz Saenredam

Utrecht Church interior (1645)

Bruegel (the Elder), Preaching of John the Baptist (1565) Flemish artist

Raphael, School of Athens (1509-11)

Vatican, Rome

Renaissance

Rembrandt, The Night Watch (1642)

Amsterdam

Baroque

Comparing naturalism and theatricality from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries

Gianlorenzo Bernini. David. 1623. Height 5’ 7”.

Saint Peter’s BasilicaRenaissance: Michelangelo (1546-93)

Baroque: Carlo Maderno westwork (1607-15)Bernini colonnades (1620)

Gianlorenzo Bernini. Cornaro Chapel,

Church of Santa Maria Della Vittoria, Rome.

1642–1652.

Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome (1665-76)

Caravaggio. Bacchus. 1595–1596. 37 × 33 1/2”.

Caravaggio: Calling of St. Mathew

1597

-tenebrism

Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas (1603)

Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera. The Escorial. 1563–1584.

Theodor Galle, America (1630s engraving after Stradanus 1580 original)

Earliest known globe showing the Americas – ostrich egg globe from around 1500

Velazquez: Maids of

Honor 1656

Spanish

Antonio de Pereda,

Still Life with Ebony Desk

1652

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Velazquez, Water Carrier of Seville (1619)

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Rembrandt: Self Portrait

(1653)

Rembrandt, The Night

Watch(1642)

Amsterdam

Rembrandt: Three Crosses (1653)

First and Fourth States

Rembrandt: Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632)

Pieter Claesz. Still Life with Tazza. 1636. Dutch

Hans Holbein the Younger,

The Ambassadors

(1533)

Perspectival anamorphosis

Thomas Smith,Self-Portrait(1690)

British American--Baroque

Massachusetts gravestone with memento mori inscription