Matthias Grünewald
Grünewald is harrowing and visionary — agonized, twisted bodies, lurid colour, and supernatural light. Northern detail turned to extreme spiritual horror and ecstasy.
Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470–1528) was a painter from Germany, associated with Northern Renaissance.
The 15th–16th-century flowering of the Low Countries and Germany — oil glazes, microscopic detail, and sharp, worldly realism. Northern Renaissance →
More Northern Renaissance painters: Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch.
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