Sunday, May 1, 2011

Art and the Reformation


NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION




Mathias Grünewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece





Hieronymous Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, exterior, The Creation of the World




Hieronymous Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, detail of the Hell panel





Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow






Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, woodcut print




Albrecht Dürer, Melencholia I, engraving




THE CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION AND MANNERISM


Michelangelo, The Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel



Pontormo, Descent From the Cross





El Greco, Burial of the Count of Orgaz




ART AND THE REFORMATION

Mathias Grünewald
Hieronymous Bosch
--triptych
--alchemy
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
--proverb
The Reformation
--Martin Luther
--Protestant Christianity
Albrecht Dürer
--printmaking
-----woodcut
-----engraving

Read Chapter 18

THE COUNTER-REFORMATION AND MANNERISM

The Sack of Rome, 1527
The Counter-Reformation
Mannerism

Read Chapter 17