Northern Renaissance Art

1. What changes in northern art in the year 1500?
2. Why is the presence of St. Sebastian and St. Anthony appropriate in Matthias Grüenwald's Isenheim Altarpiece?
3. What makes the Isenheim Altarpiece a thoroughly German work (other than the fact that is was produced in Germany?)
4. What is the significance of Albrecht Dürer's foray into watercolor?
5. Discuss the style and symbolism of Albrecht Dürer's "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
6. What are some Italian renaissance elements visible in some of Albrecht Dürer's self portraits? What is "northern" about them?
7. What is the significance of Albrecht Dürer's depictions of Adam and Eve in his engravings?
8. Discuss Lucas Cranch's treatment of the landscape and treatment of the nude in his "Judgment of Paris".
9. What is the allegorical message of Hans Baldung Grien's "Death and the Maiden"?
10. What are some of the typical stylistic traits of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger?
11. Discuss the psycological suggestions of Hans Holbein the Younger's Portrait of King Henry VIII.
12. Discuss the symbolism and iconography found in Pieter Aertson's "The Meat Stall."
13. Pieter Brueghel the Elder is known as a painter of what?
14. Discuss some of the typical elements found in a painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. What is his approach to his subject?