Northern renaissance

Jan van Eyck

Double portrait of Arnolfini and His Wife

Northern renaissance; 1434

oil on wood panel (one of the first to perfect this)

may represent a contract that people are witnessing (marriage or a testament)(witnesses in the mirror)

Rogier van der Weyden

Deposition

Northern Renaissance; 1453-1438

oil on wood panel

commissioned by the archers guild; Mary’s body echoes Jesus’s bc she will echo his life after his death

Matthias Grunewald

Isenheim Altarpiece

Northern Reainssance; 1510-1515

Oil on wood panel.

Albrecht Durer

Self-portrait

Northern Renaissance; 1500

Oil on wood panel.

As Christ; signed and dated top left

Albrecht Durer

Adam and Eve

Northern Renaissance 1504

Engraving

anatomical drawing (the man); a good example of northern ren.; the animals represents different humors- allegory

• the four humors- phlegmatic, sanguine, melancholic, and choleric