Author: Jeffrey Chipps SmithPublisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An up-to-date survey of this dynamic period of artistic innovation.
Author: Wolfgang StechowNorthern Renaissance Art
Author: Susie NashPublisher: 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.
Author: Kate HeardArt of the Northern Renaissance
Author: Stephanie PorrasPublisher: 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.
Erasmus, Man of Letters
Author: Lisa JardinePublisher: 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."
Author: Susan Frances JonesNorthern Renaissance Art
Author: James SnyderPublisher: 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 Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art
Author: Gordon CampbellPublisher:
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.
Author: Claudia Lyn Cahan