Every Movement / Low Countries and Germany c. 1420 to 1580

Northern Renaissance

Oil paint, the mirror, the detail. Reality rendered so closely it becomes a kind of devotion.

The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434. National Gallery, London.
When
c. 1420 to 1580
Where
Bruges, Antwerp, Nuremberg
Who
Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel
Source
Wikipedia ↗ / Museum file on Commons ↗
Pushed against
Grew out of

The full Renaissance library, 439 paintings with museum files, lives at the Renaissance room.