Compare ONE artwork from module 4 and ONE artwork from module 5

select ONE artwork from module 4 and ONE artwork from module 5. In a three-page essay, you

will compare these two objects. You will create a thesis statement that explains the reason for one

significant similarity OR difference between your two objects. Your thesis statement should include

some aspect of ICONOLOGY; that is, the background culture of each work.

FORMAT OF THE ESSAY:

PARAGRAPH ONE: Introduce your objects and state your thesis. Your thesis will explain the REASON for

one similarity OR one difference between your art objects.

BODY PARAGRAPHS (between 3 and 6 paragraphs): Each body paragraph will describe BOTH objects in

terms of ONE category of formal analysis (line, shape, texture, etc.)

SYNTHESIS PARAGRAPHS (between 2 and 4 paragraphs): You will explain the background of both works

of art (iconology).

SUMMARY PARAGRAPH: RESTATE your thesis and add a few points about the iconology of your works.

Papers must be double-spaced in 12 pt. Times New Roman font. Acceptable formats are PDF and Word

documents.

Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe

16th Century Europe in the North – Religious Change

Challenges to the status quo of the Roman Catholic Church
Holland – Desiderius Erasmus (reform from within)
Germany – Martin Luther (Lutheran)
Switzerland – John Calvin (Calvinism)
England – Henry VIII
Protestantism led to iconoclasm (deliberate destruction of religious images)
Dislike of religious images led to development of other genres
Conflicts became military in nature
As tide swung one way or another, artists often found themselves on “the wrong side”

Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait, 1500. Oil on wood.

Albrecht Dürer’s Self-Portrait, 1500. Oil on limewood panel. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

Workshop of Hans Krug (?), Apple Cup. C. 1510-1515. Gilt silver, height 21.5 cm.

Haguenau and Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, c. 1505–15. Painted and gilt limewood and oil on wood panel.

Nikolaus Haguenau’s Isenheim Altarpiece, c. 1505-1515. Painted and gilt limewood. Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France.

Nikolaus Haguenau and Matthais Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, c. 1505–15. Painted and gilt limewood and oil on wood panel.

Matthais Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece, c. 1505-1515. Oil on wood panel. Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France.

Haguenau and Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece (detail), c. 1505–15. Painted and gilt limewood and oil on wood panel.

Matthais Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece detail, c. 1505-1515. Oil on wood panel. Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France.

Haguenau and Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece (open), c. 1505–15. Painted and gilt limewood and oil on wood panel.

Matthais Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece detail, c. 1505-1515. Oil on wood panel. Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France.

Haguenau and Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece (wings), c. 1505–15. Painted and gilt limewood and oil on wood panel.

Matthais Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece detail, c. 1505-1515. Oil on wood panel. Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France.

Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, from The Apocalypse. 1497-98. Woodcut, 39.4 x 28.3 cm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxJLTZyxX1M

Albrecht Dürer, Fall of Man (Adam and Eve), 1504. Engraving.

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/adam-and-eve/uwEu0RikJE-A5Q?hl=en

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504. Engraving. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Albrecht Dürer, The Four Apostles, 1526. Oil on wood panel.

What will Protestant Art look like?

Albrecht Dürer’s The Four Apostles, 1526. Oil on wood panel. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Nymph of the Spring, c. 1537. Oil on panel, 48.5 x 72.9 cm.

Hans Baldung Grien, Death and the Matron, c. 1520-1525. Oil on wood panel, 31.3 x 18.7 cm.

Albrecht Altdorfer, Danube Landscape. c. 1525. Oil on vellum on wood panel, 30.5 x 22.2 cm.

Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, triptych, c. 1505.

Oil on wood panel.

Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights triptych, c. 1505. Oil on wood panel. Prado, Madrid.

*Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, Closed.

https://vimeo.com/191632804

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/the-garden-of-earthly-delights/EwHP5mUuUOzqVg?hl=en

Caterina van Hemessen, Self-Portrait, 1548. Oil on wood panel, 31.1 x 23.5 cm.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565. Oil on wood.

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/hunters-in-the-snow-winter/WgFmzFNNN74nUg?hl=en

Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Hunters in the Snow,1565. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565. Oil on wood.

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/the-harvesters/PAH1oMZ5dGBkxg?hl=en

Hans Holbein the Younger, The French Ambassadors, 1533. Oil and tempera on wood.

Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Amassadors, 1533. Oil on oak. National Gallery, London.

Left: Jean de Dinteville

Right: Georges de Selve

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Queen Elizabeth I (The Ditchley Portrait), c. 1592. Oil on canvas, 2.4 x 1.5 m.