HUMANITIES 251

J. SWEDENE

Please use these review materials as a guide. Do not consider them exhaustive of all the material likely to show up on the test.
 
 

Northern Renaissance Style (Fleming, Chapter 11)

Rise of merchant class in North, the conditions for

Map : the Low Countries, Dijon, Bruges, Ghent, Brussels

Claus Sluter: Well of Moses

Robert Campin: Merode Altarpiece

Jan van Eyck

Hugo van der Goes

Hieronymus Bosch

Peter Brugel the Elder –what his work says about everyday life

Albrecht Durer

Matthias Grunewald

Hans Holbein the Younger

William Shakespeare

Thomas More

Utopias, Dystopias

Martin Luther

Protestantism and its social, economic, theological, artistic effects

The Taliban’s destruction of religious artifacts vs. the iconoclasts’ destruction
 
 

Some questions:

1. Discuss symbolism in terms of Northern Renaissance Style art. Which artists relied on it? And in what ways did they do so?
2. How did the oil medium influence the Northern Style?
3. Discuss the historical timing and intended audience of Grunewald’s Crucifixion.
4. Describe the triptych entitled Garden of Earthly Delights. Who was it by? What is its subject matter? How does it differ from Ghiberti’s Story of Adam and Eve? Are the two similar in any way? What way, if any?
5. Explain why some of the followers of the Reformation leaders took to destroying art and whether the leaders advocated the practice.

Venetian Renaissance, International Mannerism (Fleming, Chapter 12)
 

Library of St. Mark

Painting:

Bellini

Giorgione

Titian

Tintoretto

Veronese (Paulo Cagliari)

Mannerism

Fiorentino

Pontormo

Parmigianino

Bronzino

El Greco

Cellini

Bologna

Some questions:

1. In what ways do Renaissance artists, especially in the North, portray death as the great leveler? Have we seen this view of death in earlier societies?
2. How did the fragmentation of Christian institutions affect life between 1500 and 1600?
3. Explain how the Laocoon Group (Fig. 3.18) may have influenced Bologna’s Rape of the Sabine Women.