Northern Renaissance Artworks | Trivium Art History

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Ancient Egypt

Super power of all super powers.

4000 BCE-30 BCE

Mesopotamia

Poetry, war and the invention of law and propaganda.

3500 BCE-1000 BCE

Aegean Civilizations

The lost faces of the ancient world.

3000 BCE-1200 BCE

Ancient China

Three dynasties birth Chinese art and philosophy.

2070 BCE-256 BCE

Ancient Greece

Know Thyself

800 BCE-31 BCE

The Etruscans

A mysteriously happy people at the fringes of the classical world

768 BCE-264 BCE

Ancient Rome

Roads, Plumbing, High Culture = Empire.

753 BCE-530

Classical India

When India held the largest economy in the world for 1500 years

230 BCE-550

Middle Ages

Byzantine Art

The proliferation of Christian art

330-1453

Early Medieval Art

Religion, feudalism and lots of gold leaf.

476-1200

Medieval Persian Art

Persia brings a wealth of art, poetry, and mysticism to Islam.

651-1500

Islamic Dynastic Art

When you don't paint people, things get beautifully, powerfully decorative.

661-1243

Viking Age

Wolves among sheep

793-1066

Khmer Art

The God-kings and stone cities of Cambodia

800-1431

Gothic Art

The race for height

1144-1500

Age of Discovery

Song Dynasties

Finding the sublime in nature's power.

960-1127

Italian Renaissance

Cultural rebirth though intellectual inquiry

1350-1500

Northern Renaissance

How Humanism beats down Feudalism with the printing press

1420-1650

Spanish Renaissance

Religion and the laws of perspective.

1492-1600

Mughal Art

Power, sophistication, luxury and might.

1500-1800

Mannerism

Tension, distortion and ice-cold style

1520-1600

Baroque

The drama of deep color and shadow

1600-1725

Edo (江戸時代)

Art, culture, and NO OUTSIDERS.

1603-1868

Qing Dynasty

Benevolent emperors and the height of literature and art.

1644-1912

The Enlightenment

"Dare to know! Have courage to use your own reason!"

1685-1815

Western Esoteric Art

The best truth is secret truth

1690-1947

Rococo

Opulent, playful embrace of the ornate — 18th century swag.

1715-1774

Neoclassicism

Classical imagery, democratic ideals, and the bloody hands of change.

1760-1830

Industrial Revolution

Academicism

Allegory, craft, and the unrelenting dictatorship of the Academy.

1650-1900

Romanticism

Artistic revolt against the Age of Enlightenment

1800-1860

Hudson River School

An American fraternity of mountain worshipers

1825-1870

Early Photography

Nature's pencil: light!

1826-1860

Barbizon School

A small village in France, a gathering of artists.

1830-1870

Pre Raphaelites

Emo teenagers drag art back to the future.

1848-1860

Realism

Truth, accuracy, and the absence of personal bias

1850-1880

Impressionism

Light and movement as the crux of human perception

1860-1900

Meiji Art

The end of feudalism begins with the search for knowledge.

1868-1912

Post-Impressionism

Beyond nature, toward emotional simplicity.

1886-1905

Modernism

Early Modernism

Tradition be damned.

1800-1950

Symbolism

A mystic search for meaning and psychological truth.

1880-1910

Art Nouveau

Out with the old, in with the sexy.

1890-1910

Vienna Secession

"To every age its art. To art its freedom."

1897-1905

Fauvism

"A pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public"

1900-1910

Expressionism

A more authentic, anxious, and grotesque reality

1905-1933

Futurism

Blood, speed and violence.

1909-1944

Cubism

"We only wanted to express what was in us..."

1910-1930

Suprematism

Taking refuge in the square.

1913-1924

Dada

Dada is anti-dada!

1916-1924

De Stijl

The art of the perfectly straight line

1917-1931

Constructivism

Art should only serve society.

1919-1935

Art Deco

Geometry, ornamentation, and lots and lots of money

1920-1940

Surrealism

Art created without reason, aesthetics or morality.

1924-1965

Abstract Expressionism

It is not a picture, it is an event.

1940-1960

Northern Renaissance

How Humanism beats down Feudalism with the printing press

Jan Van Eyck

Rogier van der Weyden

Hieronymus Bosch

Albrecht Dürer

The Adoration of the Magi

The Last Judgement

Self-portrait at the age of thirteen

Portrait of the Artist's Father

Self-portrait at age 22

Saint Jerome Penitent in the Wilderness

The Apocalypse — The Whore of Babylon

The Apocalypse — The Four Horsemen

Wing of a Roller

Self-portrait at age 28

Young Hare

The Large Piece of Turf

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Adam and Eve

Salvator Mundi

Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman

Feast of Rose Garlands

The Little Owl

Eva and Adam

Head of an African

Temptation of Saint Anthony

Melencolia I

The Celestial Globe — Southern Hemisphere

The Rhinoceros

The Haywain Triptych

The 95 Theses

Portrait of Maximilian I

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Portrait of Jakob Muffel

Outstanding Painter and Architect of the Cities

Children's Games

The Triumph of Death

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

The Tower of Babel

The Procession to Calvary

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Hunters in the Snow

The "Little" Tower of Babel

The Harvesters

Adoration of the Kings in the Snow

Massacre of the Innocents

The Three Soldiers

The Peasant Wedding

Andreas Cellarius

The Last Drop

Jolly Toper

Young Flute Player

Young Boy in Profile

Boy with a cat, red hat and a piece of bread

A Card Player

The Proposition

A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel

Rachel Ruysch

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things