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Paintings During The Northern Renaissance Melancholy by Lucas Cranach is a dark allegory of the deteriorating political and spiritual situation in the Holy Roman Empire during the sixteenth century. According to author G. G. Zerffi "In the Allegory the artist represents congruities, traces connections, unites analogies and separates differences.271 Imagination has in allegories an inexhaustible field for composition. Types are signs, arbitrarily interpreted as meaning something, which they may or may not mean. Emblems with the Greeks were golden or silver figures which could be detached from vessels. With the Romans the word was used as a synonym for symbol or metaphor. They became with us Christians signs in colours. White or blue was the emblem of innocence, red of joy, black of mourning, green of hope, and purple of power or dignity." The four
figures represnt the Four Temperaments The angel is a personification
of melancholy and the frolicking toddlers represent sanguine, the
phlegmatic, and the
choleric temperaments. In Cranach’s painting, melancholy is
dressed in red
which might be linked to something demonic.
Outside the window, decending from a ominous black cloud, demons and
witches ride forth. The demon is the center of the dark cloud is also
wearing red. The white dog, possibly
representing faith and loyalty, appears
troubled and angry being in such company. Melancholy, c. 1532, Northern Renaissance by Lucas Cranach The Elder Important Words, People, Phrases, Characteristics related to the Northern Renaissance Art Movement - allegorical painting, rebirth, invention of oil painting, Hieronymus Bosch,Limbourg Brothers, Desiderius Erasmus, Robert Campin, Jan Van Eyck, Jean Fouquet, Albrecht Dürer, Johannes Gutenberg, Johann Reuchlin, Martin Luther, rise of the merchant class, world landscape, Low Countries, Protestant Reformation, Calvinisim, glazing, impasto, scriptorium,illuminator, invention of the printing press, woodcuts, engravings, Antwerp School, Guild of Saint Luke, commerce, Flemish School, Northern Europe, Flanders, Bruges, renewed interest in classical learning, mythological scenes, genre painting, landscapes, portraits, moralizing overtones, human vices, lust, paradise, spirituality, piousness, living a simple life,reform, Human Reasoning, tradesmen at work, idyllic scenes of peasants, playing games,feasting, linear perspective, \Heliocentric Theory, humour, satire, spiritually significant, illuminated manuscript, idealized biblical themes, scriptorium, emotion, illuminator, iconoclast, Age of Discovery, Virgin and Child, axonometric drawing, curiosity about the natural world, realistic use of colours and light, Old Testament stories, Gospel parables, The Blackdeath, Christian symbolism
☼☼☼☼☼ Important Northern Renaissance Artists Pieter
Brueghel the Elder (1525
- 1569) Flemish
Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564 - 1638) Flemish Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 - 1553) German Albrecht
Dürer (1471
- 1528) German
Matthias Grünewald (1434-1494) Flemish Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) German Quentin
Massys (1466–1530 Flemish
Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464) Dutch Jan van Eyck (1385 - 1441) Flemish Robert Campin 1375-1444 Dutch Hans Melming 1434-1494 German Petrus Christus (1420–1476) Netherlandish Simon
Marmion (1425-1489)
French Early
Netherlandish
Jan Provoost (1465–1529) Flemish School, Netherlandish Hugo Van Der Goes (1430-1482) Joos van Cleve (1485 – 1540) Netherlandish Joachim Patinir (1480 –1524) Flemish School Hubert
van Eyck (1385–1426) Flemish
Michael Wolgemut (1434–1519) German Michael Pacher (1435– 1498) Austrian Colijn de Coter (1445–1532) Netherlandish Pieter
Pourbus (1523-1584) Flemish
School
Gerard Horenbout (1465 - 1541) Flemish School, Jean Malouel (1365-1415) French Early Netherlandish Hieronymus Bosch (1453 - 1516) Dutch Dieric Bouts the Elder (1413-1475) Dutch
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