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their genitals, but otherwise they're nude, with the pale, thin bodies of the aristocrats for
whom Cranach painted. (Adam, beware of antlers.) Though the subject is biblical, it cap-
tures the worldly spirit of Germany's Renaissance. The northern version of humanism saw
humans not as noble Greek gods (as the Italian Renaissance did), but as fallible, lusty, and
even a bit cynical.
• Continue into Room 3, devoted to Baroque.
Peter Paul Rubens—
The Family of Jan Brueghel the Elder
(1613-1615)
Rubens paints his close friend and occasional collaborator, along with his wife and
two kids. Rubens and Brueghel, Antwerp's two best painters, tag-teamed a couple of
dozen works. Brueghel focused on his specialty—background, flowers, animals, and gar-
lands—and Rubens did the people. Also in Room 3 is Rubens' dreamy
Landscape by
Moonlight
(1635-1640).
• Head through Room 4 (with stuffy canvases of 18th-century Europe) and proceed into
Room 5 (a.k.a. the Harry Neal Room).
