Epochs · Low Countries & Germany
Northern Renaissance
c. 1430 – 1580
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North of the Alps, painters perfected oil glazing and used it to render the visible world with almost microscopic precision: the gleam of brass, the fur of a lapdog, the reflection in a convex mirror. Ordinary objects often carry symbolic weight, and the rise of printmaking let artists like Dürer build international reputations.
Hallmarks
- Jewel-like oil glazes
- Obsessive surface detail
- Everyday objects loaded with meaning
- Printmaking and artistic self-promotion
Artists here
- Robert Campin · c. 1375 – 1444
- Jan van Eyck · c. 1390 – 1441
- Rogier van der Weyden · c. 1399 – 1464
- Petrus Christus · c. 1410 – c. 1475
- Hans Memling · c. 1430 – 1494
- Hugo van der Goes · c. 1440 – 1482
- Hieronymus Bosch · c. 1450 – 1516
- Albrecht Dürer · 1471 – 1528
- Matthias Grünewald · c. 1475 – 1528
- Albrecht Altdorfer · c. 1480 – 1538
- Hans Holbein the Younger · c. 1497 – 1543
- Unknown artist, France
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder · c. 1525 – 1569
