Northern Renaissance - A New Sense of Beauty

This is a 6 Session Lecture Series on Northern Renaissance art by Alex Shundi.  Shundi's knowledge of art, culture and history allows him to provide insightful and eye opening examinations of the many subjects on which he lectures.

Here is his description of this course.

"Due to a number of factors such as the development of a large “Trade Fleet” the enabled great lucrative exchanges of merchandize as far as India, the Protestant Reformation that changed the core of religious esthetics and welcomed in many more subjects of interest, the painters and sculpture artists “beyond the Alps” formed a new sense of beauty, and described a wanting of pleasures brought about by a formation of bourgeois middle class that demanded an art as object-oriented as the trade that enriched them.

This new wealth afforded to send many aspiring artists to Italy, where they exchanged ideas and learned systems of art-making that soon would create a new way of expression. This, and many other instances sparked an atmosphere that gave birth to artists such as van Eick, Brueghel, van der Weyden, Bosch, , Rembrandt, Halls, Vermeer , Leyster, Rubens, Hals, and many others all the way to Mondrian.

We will explore all this and more, including art of Germany, France, England and Denmark also created during this period of mutual exchange of ideas and methods between north and south generated a mutual influences to finally give us masterpieces." 

Sessions are held on the Zoom platform on Monday evenings from 7 to 8 PM. However, the lectures are usually longer than the hour.