Тема: Gothic Painting (1280-1515)

Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, the elder Holbein, like his brother Sigmund, painted richly colored religious works in the late Gothic style. In addition to the altar paintings that are his principal works, he designed church windows and also made a...

As Gothic painting had been shaped by the feudal societies of the Middle Ages, with its roots in the Romanesque and Byzantine traditions, Renaissance art was born out of a new, rapidly evolving civilization.

He brought to painting a new degree of realism, a new wealth of subject matter, and a new sensuousness in form and color.

...us no escape, filling the painting with his agony. We are hemmed in by the immensities of darkness and mountain, alone...
...no man'': it is of Grьnewald's Christ that we think. In this noble veracity, Gothic art reached an electrifying greatness.

Ingres's work had often been severely criticized in Paris because of its ` Gothic ' distortions, and when he accompanied this painting to the Salon of 1824 he was surprised to find it acclaimed and himself set up as the leader of the academic...

In the generation after his death he had an overwhelming influence on Florentine painting ; it declined with the growth of International Gothic , but his work was later an inspiration to Masaccio, and even to Michelangelo.