Northern Renaissance
Art produced in
the countries north of Italy in the first half of the sixteenth
century. It is sometimes considered to include the late
Gothic
Dutch (or
Netherlandish) painting of the fifteenth century because of its
interest in certain aspects of realism.
Representative
painters:
Gerard David, Petrus
Christus, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Matthias Grünewald,
Albrecht Altdorfer, Baldung Grien (Hans Baldung), Ambrosius Holbein,
Hans Holbein the Younger