Chipps Smith, Jeffrey.

The Northern Renaissance.

England, Phaidon, 2004. 21.8cm x 16.1cm. 447 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Includes for Example: Fra Angelico/ Bellini/ Bernini/ Donatello/ Caravaggio/ El Greco/ Palladio/ Piero delia Francesca/ Pontormo/ Rembrandt/ Rubens/ Titian/ Wren/ Blake/ Cezanne/ Degas/ Renoir/ Munch/ Renoir/ Rodin/ Turner/ Goya/ Van Gogh/ Aalto/ Bacon/ Braque/ Kahlo/ Kahn/ Kandinsky/ Klee/ Picasso/ Moore/ O’Keefe/ Wright/ Warhol/ Magritte/ Malevich/ Man Ray/ Miro/ Matisse etc.

In the years from 1380 to 1580 northern Europe witnessed a period of artistic innovation as dynamic as contemporary developments in Italy. Stimulated by the atmosphere of intellectual curiosity about the individual and the natural world, Northern Renaissance artists, such as Jane van Eyck, Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein, mastered the new technique of oil painting and printmaking to produce some of the most exquisite art of all time. It was also a period of political, religious and social turmoil, which profoundly changed the patronage, production and subject matter of art. At all levels of society art was a part of everyday life.

Jeffry Chipps Smith writes lucidly about these changes and the objects themselves. The works range from tapestries, altarpieces and illumiinated manuscripts to churches, palaces and civic architecture. He discusses the audiences and functions of art from across norther Europe, including not only France, Germany and the Low Countries, but also Britain and Austria. He explores major cultural and historic events such as the Protestant Reformation and the discovery of the Americas, and looks at how they widened intellectual and religious horizons. The result is a book that reveals how the Northern Renaissance masters laid the foundations for the art of succeeding centuries.

• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714838675
• Inventory Number: 41500AB

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