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'Early Renaissance painting' bridges the period of European art history between the art of the Middle Ages and the art of the Renaissance.
Two regions of Europe particularly active artistically during this period were Italy, initially, and later northern Europe (essentially Flanders). The Renaissance is considered to have reached northern Europe in the late 15th and early 16th century. Thus, most of the Early Renaissance works in northern Europe were produced between 1420 and 1550.

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Themes and symbolism

Techniques

Italian artists

Artists of the Low Countries

German artists

French artists

Spanish Artists

Works

Major collections

See also

Themes and symbolism

The works of art of this period feature mainly religious themes (the Church was a main client of these artists), but also some purely figurative themes.
The religious symbolism is largely drawn from the work of Jacobus de Voragine, ''The Golden Legend'' (1260). Some more mundane themes were treated, but they were often treated via a religious or mythological representations.

Techniques

★ The use of perspective: The first major treatment of the painting as a window into space appeared in the work of Giotto di Bondone, at the beginning of the 14th century. True linear perspective was formalized later, by Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti. In addition to giving a more realistic presentation of art, it moved Renaissance painters into using more paintings.

★ Balance and Proportion: proper sizes and the use of airy, bright colors. The human anatomy wasn't as idealized as during the ancient times.

Italian artists

★ Leone Battista Alberti (1404-1472)

★ Fra Angelico (c.1395-1455)

★ Biagio di Antonio

★ Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337)

★ Donatello

★ Sandro Botticelli

★ Masaccio

★ Domenico Veneziano

★ Filippo Lippi

★ Patrick Farrell

★ Andrea del Castagno

★ Piero di Cosimo

★ Paolo Uccello

★ Antonello da Messina

★ Pisanello

★ Andrea Mantegna

★ Luca Signorelli

★ Alessio Baldovinetti

★ Piero della Francesca

★ Masolino

★ Andrea del Verrocchio

★ Domenico Ghirlandaio

★ Benozzo Gozzoli

★ Carlo Crivelli

Artists of the Low Countries

''Main articles: Early Netherlandish painting for 15th century artists, Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting for 16th century artists''

★ Jean Bellegambe (c.1470-1535)

★ Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516)

★ Dirk Bouts

★ Robert Campin (c.1380-1444)

★ Petrus Christus (1410/1420-1472)

★ Jacques Daret

★ Gerard David (c.1455–1523)

★ Hubert van Eyck (1366?-1426)

★ Jan van Eyck (1385?-1440?)

★ Geertgen tot Sint Jans

★ Hugo van der Goes

★ Adriaen Isenbrant (c.1490-1551)

★ Limbourg brothers

★ Quentin Matsys (1466-1530)

★ Hans Memling (c.1430-1494)

★ Joachim Patinir

★ Roger van der Weyden (Rogier de la Pasture)
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German artists

★ Albrecht Altdorfer (c.1480-1538)

★ Hans Baldung (c.1480-1545), Alsatian

★ Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553)

★ Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586)

★ Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

★ Matthias Grünewald (c.1470-1528)

★ Hans Holbein the Elder (c.1460-1524)

★ Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497–1543)

★ Ambrosius Holbein (1494-1519)

French artists

★ Jean Fouquet

★ Jean Clouet

★ Francois Clouet

★ Barthélemy d'Eyck (born Netherlands),

★ Nicolas Froment

★ Jean Hey

★ Simon Marmion

★ Enguerrand Quarton

★ Master of Moulins

Spanish Artists

★ Bartolomé Bermejo

★ Ayne Bru

★ Juan de Flandes

★ Jaume Huguet

★ Pablo de San Leocadio

★ Pere Serafi

Works

★ Ghent Altarpiece, by Hubert and Jan van Eyck

★ The Arnolfini Portrait, by Jan van Eyck

★ The Portinari Triptych, by Hugo van der Goes

Major collections

::General Collections:

★ National Gallery, London

★ Louvre, Paris

★ National Gallery of Art, Washington

★ Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

★ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
::Netherlandish:

★ Musee Communal des Beaux-Arts, Bruges, Belgium

★ Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium

★ Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain - for works of Hieronymus Bosch
::Italian:

★ Uffizi, Florence

See also

★ Italian Renaissance painting

★ History of painting

★ International Gothic

★ Danube school