Northern Renaissance artists were famous for imbuing their paintings with religious and philosophical symbolism. Grounded in the medieval belief of the world as the book of God, this approach remained central to the visual culture of the Low Countries throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, especially in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.
Art historian Aneta Georgievska-Shine highlights these “painted treatises” and explores their symbolic content in a range of genres, from beautiful domestic interiors to market scenes and images of children’s games.
10 a.m.–11:15 a.m. Jan van Eyck to Hugo van der Goes
The art of description as a spiritual meditation
11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m. Albrecht Durer to Hans Holbein the Younger
Religious images in the aftermath of the Reformation
12:45–1:15 p.m. Break
1:15–2:30 p.m. Hieronymus Bosch to Peter Aertsen
The play of genres in 16th-century painting
2:45–4 p.m. Peter Brueghel the Elder and His Legacy
Accepting paradox as a way of life
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