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Quentin Massys
1466?- 1530
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Northern Renaissance Painter
The early 1500s saw the demise of feudalism and patronage shifted from super wealthy church to the merchant class. Businessmen, tradesmen and prosperous women of the merchant class began collecting and commissioning works of art. These new patrons favored paintings that included a moralizing overtones, domestic scenes, peasants at work and play, fantastical landscapes, dogs, cats, birds, children and household goods.
One of the major difference between Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance is that Northern painters were not particularly interested in decadent Greek and Roman influences, focusing more on domestic scenes, satire, and philosophical themes. The Italian Renaissance painters focused heavily on religion, Roman Catholicism. Popes and church hierarchy were wealthy, powerful rulers. Like kings they were depicted in elaborate settings swaddled in furs and silks. Humanism was emerging, and religious devotion, though still an important part of people's lives, was being restructured to accommodate the belief that man can be master his own fate.
Trinity with St. Sebastian and St. Roch c.1518
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