3 – Renaissance Art at the Crossroads: Italy and the Netherlands
Online
Course 3 – Summer School online
Monday 9 – Friday 13 June 2025
Dr Richard Williams
£395
Course description
The impact of Netherlandish painting, founded by Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, was so profound in Italy that it changed the direction of Italian Renaissance art. From Filippo Lippi to Raphael, Italian painters switched from egg tempera to the Netherlandish technique of painting in oils, adopted the Northern approach to portraiture, emulated the depiction of light, texture and other illusionistic effects, and even copied landscape backgrounds from imported Northern altarpieces.
In the fifteenth century this influence traveled almost exclusively in one direction from north to south. However, in the sixteenth century this direction was effectively to reverse as the works of Michelangelo and other Italian masters caught the imagination of Netherlandish artists and their patrons, from Gossaert ultimately to Rubens.
This course takes a broad perspective to explore Renaissance art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as an endlessly creative cross-cultural fertilisation between Italy and Northern Europe.
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Lecturer's biography
Dr Richard Williams completed his doctorate at The Courtauld and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by Yale University. Following this he was a specialist in Northern Renaissance art in the art history department at Birkbeck, University of London. More recently he has been appointed Learning Curator at the Royal Collection and is based at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. His published research focuses on art in England and other regions of Northern Europe in the sixteenth century.