Northern Renaissance Art and Paintings, Page 28
The Northern Renaissance is an art movement that began in the southern Netherlands (Flanders) in the early 1400s and spread to Germany, France and England in the 1500s. Its painters used oil paint in thin, translucent glazes to record faces, fabrics, light and landscape in minute, lifelike detail, and from about 1500 they joined that to Italian ideas of proportion and perspective. Its painters include Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
