ENGLISH

Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research

By Henk van Veen , Bernhard Ridderbos

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9053566147, 9789053566145
Open Library ID
OL22618546M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (17126477 bytes)
Edition
Rev. and Enl. Ed
Pages
492\492
Topic
Art Graphic Arts
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47
Искусство и искусствоведение;Изобразительное искус

Description

The so-called Flemish Primitives, a group of fifteenth-century painters from the southern Netherlands, acquired their name in the nineteenth century. Among them were world-famous artists such as Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, the brothers Van Eyck, and Huge van der Goes. Their masterpieces, oil paintings minutely detailed in luminous color, are a high point of Western European art, which, together with the Italian Renaissance paintings, laid the foundations for modern art. This book focuses on the artistic, religious, and social significance of their art and its iconographic interpretations, as well as how the paintings themselves were collected, evaluated, and studied over the centuries.

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