W.G. Sebald's 'After Nature' inspires exhibition Aug 31, 2008
More, perhaps, than his other books, "After Nature," a long poem published posthumously, feels like an apt point of departure for an art exhibition: Divided into three sections like a triptych, the poem focuses in its first part on the northern Renaissance painter Matthias Gr newald and is scattered with the kind of wild and mournful descriptive imagery that evidently gets under the skin of many visual artists. Sebald was obsessed with loss. (Boston Globe)
Noted writers help UAA reach out to community Jul 14, 2008
Yesterday, students and faculty from around the country began a 12-day writing intensive that includes the university's Northern Renaissance Arts and Science Series of public lectures ... " Twenty-three new students from states as distant as Hawaii and Maine started the program this year, with four core faculty members and 12 associates involved in the residency. The program will double next year, enlisting even more writers and scholars as teachers and speakers, Simpson said. NORTHERN... (Anchorage Daily News)
Culture shock, German-style Jul 5, 2008
In their graphic work, which harked back to the techniques of the Northern Renaissance, the artists of the group would hack away at a woodblock to create images that were powerful and primitive. Emil Nolde, who is responsible for the earliest piece in Rex Irwin's survey of German Expressionist prints, was briefly associated with Der Bruecke from 1906-07. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
NYC Museum Exhibits: Summer 2008 May 12, 2008
rer : Art in Transition (July 26-September 21) explores prints by arguably the greatest graphic artist of the Northern Renaissance. The influences of Late Gothic and Italian Renaissance art on Durer's works on paper are fully considered throughout this exhibition from the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany. (Suite101.com)
Renaissance Art Book Gifts 2007 Dec 15, 2007
Covering mid-14th- through 16th-century Western Europe, the following 10 selections are scholarly catalogues of recent museum exhibitions bound to satisfy anyone interested in Italian and Northern Renaissance art and culture ... Details the significance of the well-known prints, drawings and watercolors by German Renaissance master within the cultural contexts of the Northern Renaissance and Protestant Reformation ... Dackerman, Susan, et al. Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern... (Suite101.com)
Seeing the light in a maverick's new work Jul 8, 2007
Two 8-by-10 paintings depicting rural scenes could be mistaken at first glance for the works of a Northern Renaissance miniaturist. One describes a rustic wall of large rounded stones whereon lengths of wood lean toward each other like neighbors discussing the weather. (Boston Globe)
'Dürer and Italy': A master's impact on Renaissance art May 19, 2007
The most intellectual of northern Renaissance artists, but the one who responded most immediately to nature, to the world and the people around him, he was profoundly religious yet supremely open-minded. D. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The Northern Renaissance Mar 16, 2007
This Northern Renaissance has very distinct characteristics that set it apart from its Italian counterpart. By the end of the Hundred Years War, in 1453, changes in art, literature and philosophy were brewing in Northern Europe. (Suite101.com)
Powerful Christ images overwhelm in pairs (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) Nov 25, 2006
Even before viewers begin to decipher the word diptych, they likely will be overwhelmed by the sufferings of the Christ figures in Albrecht Bouts' "Ecce Homo (Behold the Man)," paired with a "Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowful Mother)," and "Man of Sorrows," juxtaposed with another "Mater Dolorosa." Droplets of blood pour from Jesus' thorned "crown" into his bloodshot eyes in the "Ecce Homo." By contrast, his bloody hands are the focal point in "Man of Sorrows." Diptychs by Bouts and other 15th- and... (Washington Times)
