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DAY 63 | ART THROUGH THE AGES |
The Northern Renaissance
BEAUTY IS IN THE DETAILS
Richly detailed and symbolically dense, the Northern Renaissance engages the imagination. Born from the Gothic period, the Northern Renaissance maintained a certain naïveté of underlying form yet dedication to surface detail and ornamentation from its parent era. Situated in present-day France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium, the “North” became its own entity.
WHEN & WHERE
c. 1400–1600
Northwestern Europe
As opposed to the Italian interest in classical values, naturalistic form, and perspective, the Northern Renaissance artists were invested in ...
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