Mannerism and the Northern Renaissance at the Art Institute of Chicago

Lucas Cranach the Elder (German), Portrait of Magdalena of Saxony, Wife of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, c. 1529, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Workshop of Dieric Bouts (Netherlandish), Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin), 1480/1500, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Jan Sanders van Hemessen (Netherlandish), Judith, c. 1540, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Jean Hey, known as the Master of Moulins (French), Fragments from Christ Carrying the Cross: Saint John the Evangelist and Mourning Virgin, 1500/05, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen and Workshop (Netherlandish), The Adoration of the Christ Child, c. 1515, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Jacopo da Pontormo (Italian), Alessandro de’ Medici, 1534/35, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Antonio Rimpatta (Italian), The Holy Family with Four Saints and a Female Donor, c. 1510, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Master M.Z. (German), Aristotle and Phyllis, c. 1500, engraving on paper. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Jean Hey, known as the Master of Moulins (French), The Annunciation, 1490/95, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Quentin Massys (Netherlandish), Portrait of a Man with a Pink, 1500–10, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Attributed to Alessandro Allori (Italian), Francesco de’ Medici, c. 1560, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Workshop of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen (Netherlandish), The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, c. 1520, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Agnolo Bronzino and workshop (Italian), Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, c. 1530, oil on panel. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Sculpture in Ferrara, part 2

Figures representing March (holding a hunting horn) and April (youth holding flowers) by the Master of the Months of Ferrara (active in the first half of the 13th century). Cathedral Museum, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Decorative figure on furniture in the Palazzina di Marfisa d'Este, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Saint Paul from the sepulcher of Francesco Sacrati (c. 1461) by Antonio and Bernardo Rossellino. Cathedral Museum, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Portrait of Cicero by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (c. 1716–99). Collection of the Musei Civici di Arte Antica e Museo Riminaldi, Palazzo Bonacossi, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

The Infant Jesus and the Holy Spirit, 16th century (?), unknown sculptor. Cathedral Museum, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Statue of the Dominican friar, religious reformer, and political revolutionary Girolamo Savonarola in Piazza Savonarola. Best known for temporarily ending Medici rule in Florence at the end of the 15th century, Savonarola was originally from Ferrara. Here, he is celebrated by his birth city in an unusually dramatic and severe monument. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Madonna and Child by Antonio Rossellino, from the sepulcher of Francesco Sacrati, c. 1461. Cathedral Museum, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.