Joseph Leo Koerner argues that the Renaissance in Northern Europe - more so than its Italian counterpart - laid the foundations of modern art.
Returning Series
Northern Renaissance
April 13, 2006
April 27, 2006
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BBC Four
Joseph Leo Koerner examines the bizarre images of the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch, the destruction of works at the hands of Protestant iconoclasts and the birth of secular art with the first artist of the modern age, Pieter Bruegel.