The document provides an overview of key artworks and developments in Western Europe between 1560-1700, from the Renaissance through the Baroque period. It features paintings, sculptures, and prints from iconic artists like Michelangelo, Dürer, Cranach, Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt and Velázquez. Major events mentioned include the Protestant Reformation starting in 1517, and the development of architectural styles like Renaissance, Baroque, and Mannerism seen in works like the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica.

1. Western Europe During the Reformation, around 1560

2. Michelangelo
Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel (1534-1541)

3. Mannerism
Pontormo
Descent from
the Cross
(1525-28)

4. Parmigianino
Madonna with the Long Neck
(1535)

5. Paolo Veronese. Feast in the House of Levi. 1573. 18’ 3" × 42’.
Venice

6. Jan and Hubert (?) van Eyck. Ghent Altarpiece (Open),
Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. Completed 1432. 11’ 5 3/4" × 15’ 1 1/2”.
“Monuments Men” with panels from the altarpiece recovered at the end of the
Second World War

7. Matthias Grünewald. Isenheim Altarpiece (Closed). c. 1510–1515. Colmar, Germany

8. Matthias Grünewald. Isenheim Altarpiece (First Opening). c. 1510–1515.
Center panel 9’ 9 1/2" × 10’ 9” , each wing 8’ 2 1/2" × 3’ 1/2”.

9. Guttenberg Bible – printed with movable type (1453) Mainz, Germany

10. Lucas Cranach the Elder
Martin Luther (1533)
Key date: 95 theses, 1517
Wittenburg, Germany

11. Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and workshop. The City
of Nuremberg. Nuremberg Chronicle, published by Anton Koberger in 1493.
Each page 18 1/2 × 12 3/4”.Edition at GVSU Special Collections

12. Albrecht Dürer,
Self-Portrait (1500)

13. Dürer, The Fall of Man, or
Adam and Eve (1504)
Engraving
23-06

14. Albrecht Dürer. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
1497–1498. 15 1/2 × 11 1/8”. Woodcut.

15. Lucas Cranach the Elder,Wittenberg Altarpiece (1547)

16. Albrecht Altdorfer,
DanubeLandscape, c. 1530.

17. Iconoclasm: Protestant destruction of art as part
of Reformation in 1500s

18. Saint Peter’s Basilica
Baldacchino by Bernini (1624-33)
Pieter Jansz Saenredam
Church interior (1649)
Netherlands

19. Pieter Jansz
Saenredam
Utrecht Church
interior (1645)

20. Bruegel (the Elder), Preaching of John the Baptist (1565) Flemish artist

21. Raphael, School of Athens
(1509-11)
Vatican, Rome
Renaissance
Rembrandt, The Night Watch
(1642)
Amsterdam
Baroque

22. Comparing naturalism and theatricality from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries

23. Gianlorenzo Bernini. David. 1623. Height 5’ 7”.

24. Saint Peter’s Basilica
Renaissance: Michelangelo (1546-93)
Baroque: Carlo Maderno westwork (1607-15)
Bernini colonnades (1620)

25. Gianlorenzo Bernini.
Cornaro Chapel,
Church of Santa Maria
Della Vittoria, Rome.
1642–1652.

26. Borromini,
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome
(1665-76)

27. Caravaggio. Bacchus. 1595–1596. 37 × 33 1/2”.

28. Caravaggio:
Calling of
St. Mathew
1597
-tenebrism

29. Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas(1603)

30. Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera. The Escorial. 1563–1584.

31. Theodor Galle, America
(1630s engraving after Stradanus 1580 original)

32. Earliest known globe showing the Americas –
ostrich egg globe from around 1500

33. Velazquez:
Maids of
Honor1656
Spanish

34. Antonio de
Pereda,
Still Life with
Ebony Desk
1652
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35. Velazquez, Water Carrier of Seville (1619)
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36. Rembrandt:
Self Portrait
(1653)

37. Rembrandt: Three Crosses
(1653)
First and Fourth States
Rembrandt,
The Night
Watch
(1642)
Amsterdam

38. Rembrandt: Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632)

40. Pieter Claesz. Still Life with Tazza. 1636. Dutch

41. Hans Holbein the
Younger,
The Ambassadors
(1533)
Perspectivalanamor
hosis

42. Thomas Smith,
Self-Portrait
(1690)
British American-Baroque

43. Massachusetts gravestone with memento mori inscription