Albrecht Durer, Protestant Reformation

2.  Humanism expressed in observation of daily
world and importance of human subjects
(portraiture, detail, surfaces, human suffering
of God)
 Rising of modern cash-based, international
trading economy with secular patronage
 Changes in subject matter
 Use of new technologies (printmaking)

3. • 1517, 95 Theses, Wittenberg (Germany)
• Martin Luther
• Central ideas and ramifications
– Faith alone saves
– Breaking up political power of Church (Henry
VIII)
– Role of print media (new technologies)
– Against images in church; patronage changes
• “Counter-Reformation”
– Catholic effort to win back the faithful
– “Faith Alone Saves, Not Without Works”

4. Quentin Metsys, Money-changer and his wife, 1510 (genre picture of merchant class)

7. Portrait of a Notary,
Quentin Metsys

9. Peter Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow,
det.

14.  1517, 95Theses,Wittenberg (Germany)
 Martin Luther
 Central ideas and ramifications
 Faith alone saves
 Breaking up political power of Church (HenryVIII)
 Against images in church; patronage changes

15. Baroque Art & Power Politics (the 17th Century)

16.  Council ofTrent, 1545-1563
 Re-assert the authority of Church- St. Peter
 Emphasize personal faith, along w/works
 “Faith alone saves, not without works”
 Emotional appeal like that of Reformation

17. Lucas Cranach the Elder,Allegory of Law & Grace, 1530

18. Woodcut block & print

20. Durer woodcut block & print, Samson rending the lion, c. 1497

24. Hans Holbein,The
French
Ambassadors,
1533
Anamorphic
perspective

25. The “Hollow Bone”
Detail, sundials &
navigation
instruments
Lute, Globe, hymnal Symbolism of everyday objects

26. Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, 1510
closed

34. Sts. Sebastian (plague) &
Anthony (monasticism)

35. Det., st. anthony

36. 1st opening (2nd view) w/predella closed

39. IsenheimAltar, 2nd Opening
Temptation of Anthony
Paul & Anthony in Desert

40. Det., Sts. Paul & Anthony in the Desert

41. What the full altarpiece might
have looked like

47. Rubens, Samson & Delilah, 1610