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Topic 10 – Theatre of the World: Exploring nature and human nature

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Key terms:

· Hendrik III of Nassau (1483-1538), Count of the House of Nassau

· Topsy-turvy world; world upside down

· Carmina Burana, 13^th century

· Sebastian Brandt, The Ship of Fools, 1494

· Erasmus of Rotterdam, Moriae Encomium (In praise of folly), Basel, 1509

· Paracelsus (1493-1541), Die grosse Wundartzney (The Great Surgery Book), 1536

· Horace, Ars poetica (65–8 BC): ut pictura poesis

· Conrald Celtis, Germania, 1500

· Landscape painting; bird’s eye view

· Charon, Styx river, Hades, Cerberus

· Alexander the Great and King Darius of Persia

· Süleyman I the Magnificient; Siege of Vienna, 1529

· Abraham Ortelius , Theatre of the World, 1570

· Genre painting; still-life painting

· Erasmus of Rotterdam, Adages, 1502

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Hieronymus Bosch

Garden of the Earthly Delights

c. 1500

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Joachim Patinir

Landscape with Charon and man’s soul

c. 1520-4

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Albrecht Altdorfer

Battle of Alexander and Darius at Issus

1529

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Pieter Aertsen
Meat seller’s stall

1551

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Peasant kermis

c. 1566-8

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Netherlandish proverbs

1559