Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to a press conference with editors of Florida weeklies. "Governor," said one, "do you think we are becoming top-heavy with tourism?" The governor answered gravely: "Not so long as we keep the rest of our house in order." The Leisured Masses. A cold snap in the northern states got Florida's tourist season off to an early start this year, for what may be its biggest season ever-and it looked as if Florida's tourism might take a lot of balancing. Miami Beach, the Riviera of the leisured masses, will draw...
...Northern tradition of Van Eyck, making art a mirror of nature, also continued in Durer. In the series of "Madonnas" done between 1495 and 1511 there is the crispness and detail, that are associated with Durer's greatest powers of draughtsmanship. His capacity for fantasy as well as natural representation, a legacy of the gothic cathedrals, is evident in the drawings on apocalyptical themes (see cut). General religious discontent in Germany fed the imagination of the people. They felt particularly close to apocalyptical events which many suspected would occur in their own time. We notice too in St. Michael...
...many other aspects of the complex character of Durer and his times. Perhaps the representation of Schongauer and Wolgemut are not as rewarding as they might be, but on the whole the Museum has provided a collection of great interest to students of the later middle ages and the northern renaissance, as well as to those just interested in some of the finer examples of Durer's craft...
...woodcuts and engravings from the 15th and 16th centuries. Germany was barely touched by the Renaissance sun that burned in the south. In contrast to the freedom of the Italian artists, the Germans were still rigidly bound by the guild system. More important, they continued to develop the Northern, Medieval traditions, sloof to the revolution that had taken place across the Alps...
...been more thorough, so that it was able to absorb the classical past more easily through the intermediary of Italian Quatrocento art than by reference to classical forms themselves. The result was a new style rather than merely a duplicate of the old, a style that continued to develop Northern characteristics. This is shown by the Coat of Arms of the German Empire and City of Nuremberg, done by Durer in 1521. Following the classical example the figures are worked out with regard to proportion and anatomical exactness, yet they are unmistakably teutonic. In his treatment of St. Jerome...