Early Renaissance in Central Germany
Power. Representation. Piety.
24.11.2024 — 02.03.2025
In about 1500, major upheavals were taking place in Middle Germany. On the eve of the Reformation and the Peasants’ War, art and culture were being transformed by new influences. Princes and church dignitaries had innovative buildings erected and a novel style found its way into art. The Middle German Early Renaissance was born!
At this turn of an era, Moritzburg, one of the earliest castle buildings in Middle Germany, was erected. It was founded by Ernest II of Saxony, the Archbishop of Magdeburg (1464–1513). As a prince and church dignitary, his rivalry with other bishops and princes, including his brothers Frederick III the Wise and John the Steadfast, proved fruitful. They commissioned the leading artists of their times, being filled with deep piety and motivated by the earnest intention to assert their powerful status. Hence, they promoted the cultural transfer of the new style of the Renaissance from Italy and Southern Germany to Middle Germany, where it took on a completely independent expressive idiom.
500 years later, for this exhibition, some of these works returned to the region and the authentic location for which they were created or where they once were collected.
Catalogue
Frührenaissance in Mitteldeutschland – Macht. Repräsentation. Frömmigkeit.
Vo. 33 of the Writings for the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale)
Published by von Christian Philipsen, Thomas Bauer-Friedrich und Philipp Jahn
German
ca. 400 pages, more than 300 fig.
Leipzig : E. A. Seemann Verlag, 2024
ISBN: 978-3-69001-000-9
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