articultura:Jan Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden pioneered the use of oils, creating intricate det
articultura:Jan Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden pioneered the use of oils, creating intricate detail in the Arnolfini Marriage and Descent from the Cross. In the early 1500s Hyeronimus Bosch and Mathis Grünewald made powerful sermons in pictures. Dürer idealizes Adam and Eve in the manner of Italian artists. After the Reformation, saints and the Virgin were rarely painted. Instead Hans Holbein turned to protraits such as The Ambassadors, while Cranach and Bruegel painted myths.Chilvers. Art. Convent Garden Books. 2010 -- source link