ARTH322

The tradition of pictorial art in the Netherlands from its flowering in the courts and cities of the early 15th century to the cataclysmic moment of iconoclasm in 1566. It will feature works by famous masters like Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Durer, and Pieter Bruegel, but also objects created by lesser-known and anonymous makers. It will treat artworks -- illuminated books, tapestries, paintings, and printed images -- as complexly embedded in the great economic, social, and religious upheavals of this period, particularly considering the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the Reformation, and the sense of "discovery" of new worlds.