Northern Renaissance: 1500s

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A beginner's guide to the Northern Renaissance in the sixteenth century
Pacher and Grünewald
Hieronymus Bosch
Albrecht Dürer
Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels
Cranach and Altdorfer
Hans Holbein
England
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A beginner's guide to the Northern Renaissance in the sixteenth centuryPacher and GrünewaldHieronymus BoschAlbrecht DürerAntwerp, Bruges and BrusselsCranach and AltdorferHans HolbeinEnglandQuiz: The Northern Renaissance in the 16th centuryUnit test
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A beginner's guide to the Northern Renaissance in the sixteenth century
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An introduction to the Northern Renaissance in the sixteenth century
Pacher and Grünewald
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Pacher, St. Wolfgang Altarpiece
Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece
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Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece
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Hieronymus Bosch
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Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights
Bosch, the Last Judgment
Albrecht Dürer
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Albrecht Dürer
Dürer, Self-portrait, Study of a Hand and a Pillow
Dürer, Self-portrait (1498)
Dürer, Self-portrait (1500)
Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Dürer, the Large Piece of Turf
Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve
Dürer, Adam and Eve
Dürer, Melencolia
Dürer, Four Apostles
Dürer's woodcuts and engravings
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Dürer, Self-portrait
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Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels
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David, the Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor
Gossaert, Saint Luke Painting the Madonna
Van Orley and de Pannemaker, The Last Supper
Pieter Aertsen, Meat Stall
Bruegel, the Dutch Proverbs
Bruegel, Tower of Babel
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (Winter)
Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow (Winter)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peasant Wedding
Reliquary bust of a companion of Saint Ursula
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Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow
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Cranach and Altdorfer
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Cranach, Law and Gospel (Law and Grace)
Cranach, Adam and Eve
Cranach the Elder, Cupid complaining to Venus
Cranach the Elder, Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Altdorfer, the Battle of Issus
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Cranach's Adam and Eve
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Hans Holbein
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Holbein the Younger, the Ambassadors
Holbein the Younger, the Merchant Georg Gisze
Holbein the Younger, Christina of Denmark
Holbein the Younger, Henry VIII
England
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The Harrowing of Hell
Room: 1540-1650
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Northern Renaissance in the 16th Century
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