CAS AH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Plateresque, Orgaz, Ergotism

• School: Boston University
• Department: History of Art & Architecture
• Course: CAS AH 112
• Professor: Fred Kleiner

Document Summary

Albrecht altdorfer, the battle of issus, 1529. Interweaving landscape, history, and 16th-century politics, altdorfer painted alexander the great"s defeat of the persians for a patron who had just embarked on a military campaign against the ottoman turks. Befitting its setting in a monastic hospital, matthias. Gr newald"s isenheim altarpiece includes painted panels depicting suffering and disease but also miraculous healing, hope, and salvation. Albrecht d rer, the fall of man (adam and eve), 1504. D rer was the first northern renaissance artist to achieve international celebrity. Fall of man, with two figures based on ancient statues, reflects his studies of the vitruvian theory of human proportions. Pieter bruegel the elder, hunters in the snow, 1565. In hunters in the snow, one of a series of paintings illustrating different seasons, bruegel draws the viewer diagonally into the expansive winter landscape by his mastery of line, shape, and composition. Juan de herrera, the escorial, near madrid, spain, ca. 1563-84.