Northern Renaissance Art

Author: Susie Nash
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0192842692
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern Europe in the age of the Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixteenth century. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from inventories and guild regulations to poetry and chronicles, it examines everything from panel paintings to carved altarpieces.While many little-known works are foregrounded, Susie Nash also presents new ways of viewing and understanding the more familiar, such as the paintings of Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, and Hans Memling, by considering the social and economic context of their creation and reception. Throughout, Nash challenges the perception that Italy was the European leader in artistic innovation at this time, demonstrating forcefully that Northern art, and particularly that of the Southern Netherlands,dominated visual culture throughout Europe in this crucial period.

The Northern Renaissance

Author: Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
An up-to-date survey of this dynamic period of artistic innovation.

The Northern Renaissance

Author: Kate Heard
Publisher: Royal Collection Trust
ISBN: 9781905686322
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhous, April, 2011 and at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, October, 2012.

Northern Renaissance Art, 1400-1600

Author: Wolfgang Stechow
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810108493
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description

Art of the Northern Renaissance

Author: Stephanie Porras
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781786271655
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this lucid account, Stephanie Porras charts the fascinating story of art in northern Europe during the Renaissance period (ca. 1400–1570). She explains how artists and patrons from the regions north of the Alps – the Low Countries, France, England, Germany – responded to an era of rapid political, social, economic, and religious change, while redefining the status of art. Porras discusses not only paintings by artists from Jan van Eyck to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, but also sculpture, architecture, prints, metalwork, embroidery, tapestry, and armor. Each chapter presents works from a roughly 20-year period and also focuses on a broad thematic issue, such as the flourishing of the print industry or the mobility of Northern artists and artworks. The author traces the influence of aristocratic courts as centers of artistic production and the rise of an urban merchant class, leading to the creation of new consumers and new art products. This book offers a richly illustrated narrative that allows readers to understand the progression, variety, and key conceptual developments of Northern Renaissance art.

Northern Renaissance Art

Author: James Snyder
Publisher: Pearson College Division
ISBN: 9780131895645
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 578

Book Description
Offers a survey of the painting, sculpture, and graphic arts of the Renaissance in Northern Europe, discussing the era's artistic evolution, stylistic and iconographical themes, and art historical scholarship.

The Renaissance in the North

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870994344
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
"In this volume, the work of the German, Dutch, Flemish, French, and English masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is explored in more than one hundred reproductions. In addition to such well-known masterpieces as Van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgment, Memling's Tommaso Portinari and Maria Baroncelli, Bruegel's Harvesters, Durer's woodcut The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Cranach's Judgment of Paris, and Holbein's Erasmus of Rotterdam, this volume includes many lesser-known works in oil and on paper, as well as sculpture, decorative arts, and armor from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art."--Page [2] of cover.

Erasmus, Man of Letters

Author: Lisa Jardine
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400866170
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself—the historical as opposed to the figural individual—was a brilliant, maverick innovator, who achieved little formal academic recognition in his own lifetime. What Jardine offers here is not only a fascinating study of Erasmus but also a bold account of a key moment in Western history, a time when it first became possible to believe in the existence of something that could be designated "European thought."

The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art

Author: Gordon Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 816

Book Description
The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art provides unparalleled scope and depth in a field that has inspired and informed Western art for centuries. Drawing on the unsurpassed scholarship on the Renaissance in Northern Europe in The Dictionary of Art, the Encyclopedia deals with all aspects of Northern Renaissance art ranging from artists, architecture, and patrons to the cities and centers of production vital to the flourishing of art in this period. It offers fully updated articles and bibliography as well as more than 500 illustrations, maps, drawings, diagrams, and color plates. Comprehensive and engaging, this resource is an essential and accessible reference for students, researchers, and scholars researching in this important area.

The Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe

Author: Margaret McGlynn
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442607165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
This updated version of Humanism and the Northern Renaissance now includes over 60 documents exploring humanist and Renaissance ideals, the zeal of religion, and the wealth of the new world. Together, the sources illuminate the chaos and brilliance of the historical period—as well as its failures and inconsistencies. The reader has been thoroughly revised to meet the needs of the undergraduate classroom. Over 30 historical documents have been added, including material by Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Galileo Galilei. In the introduction, Bartlett and McGlynn identify humanism as the central expression of the European Renaissance and explain how this idea migrated from Italy to northern Europe. The editors also emphasize the role of the church and Christianity in northern Europe and detail the events leading up to the Reformation. A short essay on how to read historical documents is included. Each reading is preceded by a short introduction and ancillary materials can be found on UTP's History Matters website (www.utphistorymatters.com).