Northern Renaissance

Portrait of Johann Kleeberger is a 1526 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Emperor Maximilian I is a 1519 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Heller Altarpiece is a 1507-1509 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in the Historical Museum Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany.

Madonna with the Siskin is a 1506 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany.

Paumgartner Altarpiece is a 1503 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Germany.

Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand is a 1508 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Adoration of the Trinity is a 1511 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Portrait of Jakob Fugger is a 1518 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich, Germany.

The Four Apostles is a 1526 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Germany.

Portrait of a Young Fürleger with Loose Hair is a 1497 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.

Feast of the Rosary is a 1506 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in the Sternberg Palace in Prague, Czechia.

Saint Jerome in His Study is a 1521 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. This work is located in the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon, Portugal.

Head of a Walrus is a 1521 drawing painted by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Albrecht Dürer’s Head of a Walrus (Kopf eines Walrosses in the artist’s native German) is in the British Museum in London, United Kingdom.

Pieter Aertsen was a large-scale genre and still-life painter who often linked his scenes to biblical stories which is the likely subject of The Vegetable Seller. Perhaps in this 1567 work, we see the parable of the prodigal son’s return in the background. There is a cascade of food products that swamps the vendor whose

Dutch painter Lucas van Leyden was one of the earliest exponents of genre scenes or scenes from everyday life and Card Players is a typical example of these works. Painted in 1508, we see a gaming party play cards in an atmosphere of mistrust, lechery, and cheating. The third man from the left looks back

Lucas Cranach the Elder is perhaps, along with his contemporary Albrecht Durer, the most famous artist of the German Renaissance and his work Hunt in Honour of Charles V at the Castle of Torgau from 1544 demonstrates this. This scene, painted in honour of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V who ruled Austria from 1519

Peter Paul Rubens paints in 1615 Diana Presenting the Catch to Pan is taking from Greek mythology. We see Diana, goddess of hunting, and Pan, god of woodlands and rustic music meeting as Diana, in red, presents the yield from her hunt, including birds, a deer, and a hare. Rubens’s figures are typically muscular and

Portrait of Dürer’s Mother Barbara is a 1490 portrait painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Analysis of Portrait of Dürer’s Mother Barbara This portrait of Dürer’s Mother Barbara was painted by Albrecht Dürer around 1490 when she was approximately 39 years old. The physicality of the painting – Barbara occupies most of the picture

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness is a 1496 painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer who was a prominent painter and printmaker in the late 15th century and early 16th century. St. Jerome here is pictured emaciated in a desertified landscape holding his bible. He has cast off his red robe and cap, the adornments

German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder painted the double-portrait An Ill-Matched Pair around 1530. This subject was widely treated by artists such as Leonardo and Matsys. The theme of the marriage of (usually) an old man and a young woman for economic reasons is shown here by Cranach as a grotesque juxtaposition. The elderly