Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦<p>"Danube Landscape," Albrecht Altdorfer, c. 1520-25.</p><p>Altdorfer (c. 1480 - 1538) was a painter, engraver, and architect, and a leading figure of the Renaissance's "Danube School" of art. He is also one of the first recorded artists who was painting landscapes for their own sake, and not populating them with figures to tell a story.</p><p>The Danube School was a group of artists, located mostly in Bavaria and Austria, who favored a more "painterly" and less glossy style, and sometimes were forerunners of Expressionism in their handling of human figures. Their work often involved rugged mountains, tall pines, and dramatic light; sounds like they were also ancestors of the Romantics! </p><p>From the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RenaissanceArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenaissanceArt</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DanubeSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DanubeSchool</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AlbrechtAltdorfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlbrechtAltdorfer</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Landscape</span></a></p>