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The countries north of the Alps saw Flanders and Holland as their ideal in art and thus set their artistic style and aspirations, but starting about 1500 the influence of the Italian renaissance suddenly made it's appearance in Germany by way of Durer, who had visited Italy and brought back with him the goals and styles of Italian art.
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born: Colmar, Alsace [now France]; about 1447
died: Breisach, Baden [now Germany]; 2 February 1491
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Nativity |
Christ |
Holy Family |
Albrecht Dürerborn: Imperial Free City of Nürnberg Nürnberg [now Germany]; 21 May
1471
died: Imperial Free City of Nürnberg Nürnberg, [now Germany]; 6 April
1528
One of the unique and special acquisitions of the Tigertail Virtual Museum is Dürer's original model for Melencolia-I.
Dürer's Rock
Here is one of Dürer's most famous engravings, you can see the original fossil captured perfectly in his print.
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Melencolia I |
Twenty more Dürer pictures and prints.
Lucas Cranach The Elder
Lucas Müller
born: Cranach, bishopric of Bamberg [now Germany]; 1472
died: Weimar, Saxe-Weimar [now Germany]; 16 October 1553
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Crucifixion |
Matthias Grünewald
Mathis Gothardt
born: Wurtzburg, Bishopric of Würzburg [now Germany]; about 1475
died: Halle, Archbishopric of Magdeburg [now Germany]; August 1528
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born: about 1480
died: Regensberg [now Germany]; 12 February 1538
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Loth and his Daughter |
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Lovers |
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Susanna in the Bath |
The Battle of |
View of the Danube |
born: Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg [now Germany]; about 1485
died: Imperial Free City of Strasbourg [now France]; 1545
A Man |
Jan van Scorel
Scoreel, Schorel, Schoreel,
Schoorel, Schooreel, Schoorl, Scorelius, or Scorellius
born: Schoorel, near Alkmaar, Habsburg [now The Netherlands]; August 1495
died: Utrecht [now The Netherlands]; 6 December 1562
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Young Girl |
Presentation in the Temple |
Hans Holbein the younger
born: Augsburg, Bishopric of Augsburg [now Germany] ; 1497
died: London, England; 1543
Holbein worked for many years in England as the court painter for Henry the Eighth. His patron was Thomas More, Henry's chief minister, who was beheaded in 1525 for refusing to consent to the Acts of Supremacy that separated the English Church from Rome and made Henry VIII the head of the new church. For a painless introduction to this bit of history try watching the movie A Man for all Seasons, available for rent at your local video shop.
Sir Thomas More |
born: Breda, duchy of Brabant [now The Netherlands]; 1525
died: Brussels [now Belgium]; about 7th of September 1569
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1563 |
1563 |
There is a famous picture "The Leaning Tower of Babel" which is unfortunately now lost. However the Tigertail Virtual Museum has plans to reconstruct it from notes left by an admiring patron. There are rumors that another reconstruction is running wild on the Internet.
Seven more Pieter Bruegel, the elder pictures.
born: Leuvan [now The Netherlands]; about 1530
died: Frankfurt am Main, [now Germany]; 1597
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Feast of Midas |
Vulcan and Maia |
Winter |
born: Antwerp, Hapsburg [now The Netherlands]; 21 March 1546
died: Prague [now the Czech Republic]; August 1611
Venus and Adonis |
born: Exeter, Devon, England; 1547
died: London, England; 7 January 1619
He painted miniature portraits.
Painting miniatures is called limning and he was a limner.
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Dandy |
born: Brussels [now Belgium]; 1564
died: Antwerp [now Belgium]; 1638
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Drunk |
Five more Pieter Bruegel, the Younger pictures.
Jan Brueghel, the Elder
spelled Brueghel or Breughel
Also known as the Velvet Bruegel, or the Dutch
Jan Bruegel De Oudere
born: Brussels [now Belgium]; 1568
died: Antwerp [now Belgium]; 13 January 1625
The second son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Bouquet |
Five more Jan Brueghel pictures.
Adam Elsheimer
Ehlsheimer
born: Frankfurt am Main [now Germany]; 18 March 1578
died: Rome [now Italy]; December 1610
Glorification of |
avercamps
born: Amsterdam [now The Nethlands]; 1585
died: Kampden [now The Netherlands]; 1634
| Avercamp was both deaf and dumb. He is famous for his winter scenes. He was a popular artist in his own day. |
Fisherman Along a Ditch |
A Scene on the Ice |
Scene on the Ice |
born: Deventer? [now The Nethlands]; 1588
died: Utrecht [now The Netherlands]; about the 6th of November 1629
Considered the most important member of the Utrecht School or painters.
Influenced by Caravaggio.
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Flute Player |
born: Burgsteinfurt, Bishopric of Münster [now Steinfurt, Germany]; 1597
died: Haarlem [now The Netherlands]; about 27th of December 1660
Painted most of his life in Haarlem.
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Still Life with Wine Glass |
Pipes and Braszier |
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