Konrad Witz was a Northern Renaissance during the mid 15th century. Witz’s trademark, which became revolutionary was the naturalistic approach in his artwork to show the world in an empiricist way through details. This approach mirrors the actual world and how people interact with each other. Like most of the Renaissance artists, Witz utilized religious content from both the Old and New Testament of the Bible, but set them up for a modern audience, even using notable landscape in some of his artwork. Through the use of both the Old and the New Testament stories, Witz shows his own Christian beliefs of the old fulfilled in the new, also known as typology. There are three artworks that amplify these two themes the best, Annunciation, David, Abishai, Sababai and Benaiah, and Meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate.…show more content… While in Basel, Witz established a workshop, joined the painter’s guild in 1434, and married, and went on to having five children. Witz’s career in Basel did not last long, but during his twelve years there he created several artworks, including some altarpieces, thankfully many of his works do still survive. Due to the Reformation during the early 16th century, many artworks were destroyed, because of iconoclasm, including some of the panels from altarpieces Witz had created. In 1446 Witz died from unknown causes, but the world was left with many works that show his own religious, and political beliefs that he developed during his life in Basel, due to the schisms that were happening during this
