The Northern Renaissance

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While Italians looked to Florence as their artistic center, northern Europeans looked to Flanders and Germany, where a distinctive Renaissance style was created, based on an exploration of visual realism.This program examines:o Rogier van der Weyden's St. John Altarpiece (after 1450), from the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlino Rogier van der Weyden's Portrait of a Young Woman (circa 1455), from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCo Hugo van der Goes' Adoration of the Magi (circa 1470), from the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlino Albrecht Durer's Portrait of an Unknown Cleric (1516), from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCo Hans Holbein the Younger's Portrait of the Artist's Wife with Katharina and Philipp (1523), from the Kunstmuseum, Baselo Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Triumph of Death (circa 1562), from the Museo del Prado, Madrid.