Mary depicting the flight to Europe- The scene was used to make ordinary scene religious- Little interest in selection of formal arrangement Bruegel the Elder - Genious among Netherlandish painters- Landscape and peasant life - Preoccupation with folk customs and daily life- Never worked for church Return of the Hunters- Set that depicts months Nature is setting, not human activity Bruegal the Elder (continued) The Peasant Wedding -most memorable scene of peasant life -figures: crude, stolid, heavy-bodied, and slow -clumsiness commands respect -flat colors, minimal modeling -no cast shadows, space created in assured perspective-like Giotto-monumental and balanced-philosophical detachment from religion and political fanaticism The Blind Leading the Blind -from the Gospels -Matt. 15:12-19 -forceful image -parable of human folly -tragic-representative of the controversies then raging over details of religious ritual France Architecture and Sculpture-France assimilate Italian art-first to integrate Renaissance style-Sohier-chior of St.-Pierre -at Caen -followed basic pattern of French Gothic church choirs -translate flamboyant decoration -finials become candelabra -pier buttresses shaped like pilasters -round-arched windows of ambulatory chapels -have geometric traceryChateau of Chambord -stylistically more complicated -recall Gothic Louvre -high-pitched roofs , tall chimneys-design modified later by French buildersLescot- enlarged scheme was not completed for more than a century later- southern half of the court's west side is "classical phase"- uses classical purity and Italian stucture- Italians from superimposed classical orders, pedimented window frames, and arcade on ground floorGoujon- rich sculptural decorations on entire wall surface of third story- architectural frame work lost- combines classical details of remarkable purity with delicate slenderness of FrancePilon- own idiom merging from Mannerism with elements taken from ...
