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Art of the Northern Renaissance (Everyman Art Library) - Softcover

Craig Harbison

 
9780297833628: Art of the Northern Renaissance (Everyman Art Library)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0297833626 ISBN 13: 9780297833628
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, 1995

Synopsis

This text aims to provide an accessible approach to the Northern art tradition of the 15th and 16th centuries. Questions of realism and symbolism lead to new readings of a range of religious and allegorical images and portraits, seen in the context of the controversies of the time.

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About the Author

Craig Harbison is Professor Emeritus of art history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Jan van Eyck, The Play of Realism.

From the Inside Flap

This book evokes the art of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Northern Europe in all its richness and splendour. The works of Van Eyck, Bosch, Bruegel, Dürer and other masters are considered within the larger context of a changing society in which church and state, Protestant and Catholic, man and woman, artist and patron, independent mercantile city and noble chivalric court all played a part. Craig Harbison considers these and many other facets of the Renaissance world, drawing them together into a unified narrative that illuminates the complexity and brilliance of the art and its times.

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Publisher
Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0297833626
ISBN 13 
9780297833628
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
176