Art on the Medieval and Renaissance Wall

	Art on the walls in 15th & 16th century artwork
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Depictions of interiors from the 15th and 16th centuries with various forms of artwork hanging on the walls. In some cases, the artwork is the artist’s way of telling the viewer more about the story he’s painted, or evoking some character trait of his subjects. See also Essential Vermeer to understand the relevance of what’s on the walls in Vermeer’s paintings. A tapestry of a battle-scene in January in the Très riches heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1412-1416 A depiction of St. Christopher and the Christ Child in Annunciation by Robert Campin, 1420s An illuminated page with a prayer to Saint Veronica in a portrait of a young man by Petrus Christus, c. 1450-1460 A woodcut depicting St. Elizabeth of Thuringia in a portrait of a female donor by Petrus Christus, c. 1455 A banner with acrobats and jugglers in Luna and Her Children, the Wolfegg Housebook, c. 1475-1485 An Annunciation in an illustration of St. Luke in the Hours of Anne of France (PML M.677, fol. 29v), 1473 A drawing of a nude figure in a portrait of a young artist, c. 1500 A frieze of a Roman triumph (possibly an amalgamation of Mantegna’s Triumphs) in a portrait of Benedikt von Hertenstein by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1517 A woodcut depicting Moses in The Annunciation by Joos van Cleve, c. 1525 A print with some soldiers in a tavern scene by the Brunswick Monogrammist, 1537 Part of a series of dancing peasants by Hans Sebald Beham in The Lute-Maker’s Shop by Frans Huys; see also “Festive Peasants and Social Order” in Peasants, Warriors, and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation A framed portrait of her late husband Thomas Fiennes in a portrait of Lady Dacre by Hans Eworth, 1540 A framed picture of a man seated at a table behind Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel after the Brunswick Monogrammist, 1550s Some designs (?) for The Glass-Painter in Das Ständebuch, 1568 Several works in progress in Oil colors: The famous Master Eyckius discovered oil as a convenience for painters, New discoveries; the sciences, inventions, and discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as represented in 24 engravings issued in the early 1580's by Stradanus Just beyond the period covered by this linkspage, there’s also The Sense of Hearing, The Sense of Sight, The Sense of Taste, The Sense of Touch, The Allegory of Sight and Smell, and The Senses of Hearing, Touch and Taste, by Jan Breughel the Elder, 1618

Art on the walls in 15th & 16th century artwork

Depictions of interiors from the 15th and 16th centuries with various forms of artwork hanging on the walls. In some cases, the artwork is the artist’s way of telling the viewer more about the story he’s painted, or evoking some character trait of his subjects.

See also Essential Vermeer to understand the relevance of what’s on the walls in Vermeer’s paintings.

A tapestry of a battle-scene in January in the Très riches heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1412-1416
A depiction of St. Christopher and the Christ Child in Annunciation by Robert Campin, 1420s
An illuminated page with a prayer to Saint Veronica in a portrait of a young man by Petrus Christus, c. 1450-1460
A woodcut depicting St. Elizabeth of Thuringia in a portrait of a female donor by Petrus Christus, c. 1455
A banner with acrobats and jugglers in Luna and Her Children, the Wolfegg Housebook, c. 1475-1485
An Annunciation in an illustration of St. Luke in the Hours of Anne of France (PML M.677, fol. 29v), 1473
A drawing of a nude figure in a portrait of a young artist, c. 1500
A frieze of a Roman triumph (possibly an amalgamation of Mantegna’s Triumphs) in a portrait of Benedikt von Hertenstein by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1517
A woodcut depicting Moses in The Annunciation by Joos van Cleve, c. 1525
A print with some soldiers in a tavern scene by the Brunswick Monogrammist, 1537
Part of a series of dancing peasants by Hans Sebald Beham in The Lute-Maker’s Shop by Frans Huys; see also “Festive Peasants and Social Order” in Peasants, Warriors, and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation
A framed portrait of her late husband Thomas Fiennes in a portrait of Lady Dacre by Hans Eworth, 1540
A framed picture of a man seated at a table behind Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel after the Brunswick Monogrammist, 1550s
Some designs (?) for The Glass-Painter in Das Ständebuch, 1568
Several works in progress in Oil colors: The famous Master Eyckius discovered oil as a convenience for painters, New discoveries; the sciences, inventions, and discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as represented in 24 engravings issued in the early 1580's by Stradanus
Just beyond the period covered by this linkspage, there’s also The Sense of Hearing, The Sense of Sight, The Sense of Taste, The Sense of Touch, The Allegory of Sight and Smell, and The Senses of Hearing, Touch and Taste, by Jan Breughel the Elder, 1618