Films for the Humanities and Sciences - The Northern Renaissance

The Northern Renaissance

While Italians looked to Florence as their artistic center, northern Europeans looked to Flanders and Germany, where a distinctive Renaissance style was created, based on an exploration of visual realism.

This program examines:

• Rogier van der Weyden’s St. John Altarpiece (after 1450), from the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

• Rogier van der Weyden’s Portrait of a Young Woman (circa 1455), from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

• Hugo van der Goes’ Adoration of the Magi (circa 1470), from the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

• Albrecht Dürer’s Portrait of an Unknown Cleric (1516), from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

• Hans Holbein the Younger’s Portrait of the Artist’s Wife with Katharina and Philipp (1523), from the Kunstmuseum, Basel

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Triumph of Death (circa 1562), from the Museo del Prado, Madrid

(60 minutes)

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Item#: BVL10354
Copyright date: ©1991
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-0163-1

Part of the Series : Masterworks of Western Art


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