Northern Renaissance

 

With the revolutionary developments in art in northern Italy, the news spread over the Alps to Germany, Holland, and Flanders.  

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The most famous artists of this art movement are Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Hans Holbein, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and  Albrecht Dürer, who lived and worked in Nürnberg, Germany.

Northern Renaissance: the sixteenth century

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Albrecht Dürer - LINK ...find out more about this famous artist, who was taking etching to another level.

Adam and Eve, Albrecht Dürer, 1504

Great Artists - Albrecht Dürer