The German and Belgian Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renaissance
Limbourg Brothers
Known collectively as the Limbourg brothers, Paul, Jean and Herman de Limbourg were all highly skilled miniature painters active at the end of the 14th century and the beginning of 15th century. Together, they created some of the most beautiful illuminated books of the Late Gothic period.
Limbourg Art Works
Known collectively as the Limbourg brothers, Paul, Jean and Herman de Limbourg were all highly skilled miniature painters active at the end of the 14th century and the beginning of 15th century. Together, they created some of the most beautiful illuminated books of the Late Gothic period.
Limbourg Art Works
Ghent Altarpiece
The Ghent Altarpiece is a large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. It was begun c. the mid-1420s and completed before 1432, and is attributed to the Early Netherlandish painters and brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck. The altarpiece is considered a masterpiece of European art and one of the world's treasures. Extreme Close-ups Check out the Van Eyck Art |
Painter Petrus Christus
Noted for his innovations with linear perspective and a meticulous technique which seems derived from miniatures and manuscript illumination. Today, some 30 works are confidently attributed to him. The best-known include the 1446 Portrait of a Carthusian and c. 1470 Berlin Portrait of a Young Girl, both are highly innovative in presentation of the figure against detailed, rather than flat, backgrounds. Art from Petrus Christus Portrait of a Carthusian |
Claus Sluter
The works of Claus Sluter infuse realism with spirituality and monumental grandeur. His influence was extensive among both painters and sculptors of 15th-century northern Europe. Sluter's most famous surviving work is the Well of Moses (Moses Fountain, 1395-1403), Video on Sluter’s art |
Hugo van der Goes.Hugo van der Goes was one of the most influential Northern artists of the latter 15th century. Born c.1440 in Ghent, Belgium little is known of his life story. He became a member of the painters guild of Ghent in 1467. Sometime after 1475, he entered a monastery near Brussels but he continued to paint.
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Rogier van der WeydenNetherlandish painter
He was the most influential northern European artist of his time. Though most of his work was religious, he produced secular paintings (now lost) and some sensitive portraits. Video on Van Der Meer’s Art Rogier van der Wyden’s Art |