High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain 1500-1600

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Albrecht Durer: "Leonardo of the North"

Durer, Self portrait * Travelled widely through Europe and became an international celebrity * Took trips to Italy to study Renaissance art * First artist to synthesize Northern European stylistic features (intricate detail, realistic rendering of objects, symbols hidden as everyday objects) and blend them with Italian features (classical body types, linear perspective) --- admired the work of Leonardo * First artist to keep a thorough record of his life (self-portraits, treatises on his thoughts, and a diary) * Important graphic artist --- best known for his engravings Influenced significantly by Martin Luther and Protestant Reformation

Figure 23-3 HANS BALDUNG GRIEN, Witches' Sabbath, 1510. Chiaroscuro woodcut, 1' 2 7/8" X 10 ¼". British Museum, London. Baldung's chiaroscuro woodcut depicts witches gathered around a secret potion. One witch on a goat flies through the night sky mounted backward—suggesting witchcraft is the inversion of Christianity.

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