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The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps.From the last years of the 15th century, its Renaissance spread around Europe. Called the Northern Renaissance because it occurred north of the Italian Renaissance, this period became the German, French, English, Low Countries and Polish Renaissances, and in turn created other national and localized ...
The Renaissance in the Low Countries was a cultural period in the Northern Renaissance that took place in around the 16th century in the Low Countries (corresponding to modern-day Belgium, the Netherlands and French Flanders).
A particular form of Renaissance architecture in Germany is the Weser Renaissance, with prominent examples such as the City Hall of Bremen and the Juleum in Helmstedt. In July 1567 the city council of Cologne approved a design in the Renaissance style by Wilhelm Vernukken for a two storied loggia for Cologne City Hall.
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.
Jeffrey Chipps Smith is an American art historian specialising in the Northern Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture. He has published a number of prize winning books on art history. [1] In 2005 he wrote the introduction for a reprint of Erwin Panofsky's classic "The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer". [2]
Branchwork on the baptismal font of Worms Cathedral Branchwork tracery at Ulm Minster, c. 1475 Branchwork portal of the former monastery church of Chemnitz (1525). Branchwork or branch tracery (German: Astwerk, Dutch: Lofwerk of Loofwerk) is a type of architectural ornament often used in late Gothic architecture and the Northern Renaissance, consisting of knobbly, intertwined and leafless ...
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) The following is a list of notable Renaissance structures. Belgium Antwerp City Hall Czech Republic Château of Litomyšl Villa Belvedere in Prague Denmark Kronborg Castle Rosenborg Castle Børsen England Hampton Court Palace, from 1514 onwards Hengrave Hall, Suffolk Sutton Place, Surrey Elizabethan prodigy houses ...
Hans Vlieghe, Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585–1700, New Haven (CT): Yale University Press/Pelican History of Art, 1998, ISBN 0-300-10469-3; Zerner, Henri, Renaissance Art in France. The Invention of Classicism, translated by Deke Dusinberre, Scott Wilson, and Rachel Zerner, Paris: Flammarion, 2003, ISBN 2-08-011144-2