AHI 231 RENAISS ART IN N EUR,1400-1500

The art of 15th- and 16th-century Northern Europe. Major artists include Van Eyck, Bosch, Dürer, Grünewald, and Bruegel. Topics include court culture (hunting, pastoral gardens, chivalry, and courtly love); religious art (devotional imagery and the Reformation); middle class art (civic issues, commerce, witchcraft, sexuality); and the rise of new, more secular vocabularies such as portraiture and everyday life.