He is thought to be one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century.

Not until the 16th century, when Northern European painters inserted small holy figures into enormous wildernesses, did landscape even begin to become the real subject of painting.

Jan van Eyck (c. 1395-1441), active in Bruges, is considered to be one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century.

Gaudenzio Ferrari (c. 1471 - January 11, 1546) was a Northern Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance.

His early works were mostly religious prints after Northern painters, several in sets.

It would also be a convenient means of explaining how Italian painters learned about oil painting and how Northern painters learned about linear perspective.

Northern painters in the 16th century increasingly looked and travelled to Rome, becoming known as the Romanists.

Genre painting became a popular idiom amongst such Northern painters as Pieter Brueghel.

Hence a Northern painter could be geographically from the south and a Southern painter geographically from the north.

Genre painting became a popular idiom amongst the Northern painters like Pieter Bruegel.