[48] Another Renaissance: Painting in the Netherlands from Van Eyck to Bruegel
Wed, Jun 26, Jul 10, 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 2–3 pm (6 sessions) | Reynolds Lecture Hall
Dr. Donald Schrader, Adjunct Professor of Art History, University of Mary Washington
One of the defining features of the Renaissance is the appearance of a beautiful new art that presents a convincing illusion of reality, an art able to make the unseen appear real. At the very moment that this new visual art was being invented in Italy, a surprising school of painting that reveals the world in a different way arose in the southern Netherlands. Armed with a mysterious and complex oil painting technique, Northern artists achieved a crystalline vision of light, texture, and atmosphere that seems miraculous to the modern viewer, as it did to the audience of the fifteenth century. In this series we will explore the wonders of early Netherlandish painting, from the serene art of Jan van Eyck to the emotional drama of the paintings of Rogier van der Weyden and Hugo van der Goes; from the fairy-tale quiet of Hans Memling to the impenetrable dreamscapes of Hieronymus Bosch; and the increasingly secular art of the sixteenth century, culminating with the unforgettable worldliness of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
$95 (VMFA members $80)