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"[A] lovely book ... [with] images you take away in your mind long after the book is back on the shelf."
--Richard Edmonds, Birmingham Post, 13th February 2009
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This title is published to accompany the major exhibition Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian at the National Gallery, London (15 October 2008 - 18 January 2009).This brand new scholarship focuses on the relation between Northern and Southern European painting.This comprehensive survey traces the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. Both regions developed their own distinct styles and techniques but each was influenced by the other. Focusing on the relationship between artists of the north and south, renowned specialists analyse the notion of likeness - at that time based not only on accurate reference to posterity, but incorporating all aspects of human life, including propaganda, power, courtship, love, family, ambition and hierarchy. It features essays and individual catalogue entries that present new research on works by some of the greatest portraitists of the period, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Jan van Eyck, Hans Holbein and Titian, all magnificently illustrated.This beautiful book is rich in information about portrait types, styles, techniques and iconographies, the function of portraits, and the connections between painting, sculpture and portrait medals.The authors provide a fascinating account of the relationships of patrons, artists and sitters, as well as the process of making portraits, while also exploring complex notions of beauty, spiritual belief, and the portrait as a mirror of the soul.
"[A] lovely book ... [with] images you take away in your mind long after the book is back on the shelf."
--Richard Edmonds, Birmingham Post, 13th February 2009
Synopsis
This title is published to accompany the major exhibition Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian at the National Gallery, London (15 October 2008 - 18 January 2009).This brand new scholarship focuses on the relation between Northern and Southern European painting.This comprehensive survey traces the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. Both regions developed their own distinct styles and techniques but each was influenced by the other. Focusing on the relationship between artists of the north and south, renowned specialists analyse the notion of likeness - at that time based not only on accurate reference to posterity, but incorporating all aspects of human life, including propaganda, power, courtship, love, family, ambition and hierarchy. It features essays and individual catalogue entries that present new research on works by some of the greatest portraitists of the period, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Jan van Eyck, Hans Holbein and Titian, all magnificently illustrated.This beautiful book is rich in information about portrait types, styles, techniques and iconographies, the function of portraits, and the connections between painting, sculpture and portrait medals.The authors provide a fascinating account of the relationships of patrons, artists and sitters, as well as the process of making portraits, while also exploring complex notions of beauty, spiritual belief, and the portrait as a mirror of the soul.
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