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May 30, 2024 · After the mass destruction of religious artworks by the angry mob, artists from Northwestern Europe were forced to seek new subjects. They found inspiration in their daily lives, still lives, and portraits. Read on to learn more about the most important artists of the Protestant Reformation.
The Reformation produced two main branches of Protestantism; one was the Evangelical Lutheran churches, which followed the teachings of Martin Luther, and the other the Reformed Churches, which followed the ideas of John Calvin and Huldrych Zwingli.
Apr 17, 2017 · Heinrich Aldegrever, Death and the Bishop (1541) Luther was the most open of the reformers to religious imagery, if it was limited to personal engagement with symbolic spiritual imagery. A pupil of Dürer’s, Aldegrever was an engraver whose small prints depicted a Lutheran theology.
Dec 24, 2021 · The Art and Artists of the Protestant Reformation. In Northwestern Europe, the 16th century was marked by the Protestant Reformation. While iconoclasts were destroying religious artworks, how could artists overcome this crisis?
Tavern scene painters included Adriaen Brouwer (1605-38), Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85) and Jan Steen (1626-79); domestic scene painters included Gerrit van Honthorst (1592-1656), David Teniers the Younger (1610-90), Gerard Terborch (1617-81), Gabriel Metsu (1629-67) and Pieter de Hooch (1629-83).
Martin Luther (1483–1546) Lucas Cranach and his workshop produced many printed and painted portraits of Martin Luther, with whom the artist was well acquainted. In this small panel, the Reformer is shown close up, in three-quarter profile, wearing the distinctive black Protestant vestments.
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Jul 19, 2024 · Jan van Eyck was Netherlandish painter who perfected the newly developed technique of oil painting. His naturalistic panel paintings, mostly portraits and religious subjects, include the Ghent Altarpiece (1432), Portrait of a Man (1433), and the Arnolfini Portrait (1434).
