ARTH 2271 - Northern Renaissance Art

Effective Start Date: 08/01/2015
Surveys major developments in painting and graphics in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Netherlands and Germany. Includes the rise of Netherlandish naturalism and the origins of woodcut and engraving. Explores the effects of humanist taste on sixteenth-century painting and the iconographic consequences of the Reformation. Emphasizes the work of major artists, such as Van Eyck, Van der Weyden, Durer, Bosch, and Bruegel.

Credits: 3 to 4