Renaissance Art
Compare and contrast Renaissance art in Italy with northern Europe (Flanders and Germany) in the period 1400 to 1550. How did artists in the north and south of Europe at this time differ in their approaches to style, technique, symbolism, andtheory? Consider artists such as Masaccio and his followers in Italy and Jan van Eyck and others in the North. Discuss the concept of hidden or disguised symbolism in Flemish painting and differences from Italian practice, the different approaches to realism and the depiction of the human figure and nature in Italy and the North, and changes that took place in Italian art after 1520 with the anti-classical style of Mannerism and in Flanders and Germany after 1500 with the more expressive art of Grnewald and Bosch.