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LATE RENAISSANCE
REFORMATION
ca. 1520-1600
LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER
LAW AND GOSPEL ca. 1529
PORTRAIT OF MARTIN LUTHER 1532
CUPID COMPLAINING TO VENUS ca. 1526-27
HANS HOLBEIN
THE AMBASSADORS 1533
PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER
KERMESSE (THE PEASANT DANCE) 1567
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, THE DANCE
In Breughel's great picture, The Kermess,
the dancers go round, they go round and
around, the squeal and the blare and the
tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles
tipping their bellies, (round as the thick-
sided glasses whose wash they impound)
their hips and their bellies off balance
to turn them. Kicking and rolling about
the Fair Grounds, swinging their butts, those
shanks must be sound to bear up under such
rollicking measures, prance as they dance
in Breughel's great picture, The Kermess
CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION
ca. 1520-1600
MICHELANGELO
LAURENTIAN LIBRARY (CHURCH OF SAN LORENZO, FLORENCE) STARTED IN 1524
DEPOSITION 1547
RONDANINI PIETÀ 1552-64
PLAUTILLA NELLI
LAST SUPPER (SANTA CATERINA, FLORENCE) ca. 1568
BRONZINO
VENUS, CUPID, FOLLY, TIME 1545
PARMIGIANINO
MADONNA OF THE LONG NECK 1534-35
PONTORMO
DEPOSITION (CHURCH OF SANTA FELICITA, FLORENCE) 1528
EL GRECO
BURIAL OF COUNT ORGAZ (CHURCH OF SANTO TOMÉ, TOLEDO, SPAIN) 1586-88
LAVINIA FONTANA
SELF-PORTRAIT AT THE CLAVICHORD 1577
SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA
THE CHESS GAME 1555
SELF-PORTRAIT 1556
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