He was perhaps the greatest German Northern Renaissance Painter of his time. ‘The Dead Lovers’ shown above is one of his most disturbing works….and perhaps his best.
Grünewald lived during troubled and restless times. The world was in transition. The old medieval order imposed by the Church was buckling under the expansion of towns, the rise of the merchant class, the emergence of national states, the spread of religious reform and invention of the printing press. People were becoming fascinated with science…..more here
