Northern Renaisance Paintings & Artworks

Featured Northern Renaisance Fine Artists

Hieronymus Bosch was born in 1450 in the Duchy of Brabant, now part of the Netherlands. He died in 1516 at the age of 66. His ancestors came originally from Aachen in Germany. He most likely learned his art from his father, who was also a painter, as were several of his uncles and a brother. The themes of his paintings are concerned with religion, salvation, damnation, earthly sins, heavenly rewards, and infernal punishments. Otherwise, little is known of Bosch's actual life. He influenced Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger. [More...]

Albrecht Durer was born in 1471 in Nuremberg, in the Duchy of Bavaria, in modern day Germany. He died in 1528 at the age of 56 in Nuremberg. His father was a goldsmith from Hungary. Durer apprenticed at the age of 15 to Michael Wolgemut. Besides painting, he also studied the printmaking techniques of drypoint, woodcut, and engraving. He traveled widely, first through Germany and the Low Countries, then later to Italy, where he was influenced by Giovanni Bellini and Andrea Mantegna, and made the acquaintance of Raphael, with whom he exchanged drawings. [More...]

Pieter Brueghel the Elder was born in 1525 in the Duchy of Brabant (now in the Netherlands). He is generally considered to be Flemish, despite questions as to his actual birthplace. He died in 1569 in Brussells, Belgium, around the age of 44. He also apprenticed in Antwerp in Flanders to the Flemish painter Pieter Coecke van Aelst, whose daughter he later married. Brueghel was influenced by the art of Hieronymus Bosch and, after visiting Italy, the painters of the early Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his landscapes and village scenes showing the life of the peasants of his time. [More...]