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An exploration of a highly innovative and exciting period of art following the careers of artists such as Van Eyck, Durer and Holbein. Jeffrey Chipps Smith analyses the context of the time, such as the Protestant Reformation and the discovery of the Americas. He offers the reader an insight into domestic, civic and court life illustrated by some of the most exquisite artworks ever created. 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 Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein, mastered the new techniques 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. Jeffrey Chipps Smith writes lucidly about these changes and the objects themselves. The works range from tapestries, altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts to churches, palaces and civic architecture. He discusses the audiences and functions of art from across nothern Europe, including not only Germany, France 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.
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Jeffrey Chipps Smith is the Kay Fortson Chair in European Art at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance and Sensuous Worship, the Jesuits and the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have had to buy this book whilst studying for a degree in Art History but would highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in art and particularly in fourteenth to sixteenth century Netherlandish and German art.
Beautifully illustrated and written in an easy to follow format.
I will read this again and again just for its sheer beauty.
Beautifully illustrated and written in an easy to follow format.
I will read this again and again just for its sheer beauty.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Beautifully produced book with well reproduced illustrations typical of Phaidon. Content possibly superseded by Susie Nash's Northern Renaissance Art (2008), this work was first published in 2004.A lovely volume nevertheless and well worth having for anyone interested in the art of the period.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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This small size thick volume is very well illustrated and provides information about Northern Renaissance art through 'a broader contextual approach that situates the art within the major creative and cultural developments of the period.' (p. 4) between c. 1380 and c. 1580.
Introduction, 4
1. The Beholder's Eye: Art, Artists and the Marketplace, 13
2. An Emerging Reality: Court Art and the Ars Nova, 33
3. Pride of Place: Art in the Cities, 67
4. Tangible Success: Early Portraits and Domestic Art, 93
5. The Inner Gaze: Private Devotional Art, 119
6. The Well-Dressed Church: The Materialization of Faith, 147
7. Dancing with Death: The Art of Dying Well, 197
8. Mass Communication: Prints and Printmaking, 239
9. Beyond Mere Craft: The Knowledgeable Artist, 273
10. Theatre of the World: Exploring Nature and Human Nature, 309
11. Reading Pictures: The Reformation's Challenge, 351
12. The Artist and the Connoisseur: Courts, Cities and Collectors, 381
Epilogue, 409
Glossary, 422
Brief Biographies, 424
Key Dates, 430
Map, 435
Further Reading, 436
Index, 441
Acknowledgements, 446
Introduction, 4
1. The Beholder's Eye: Art, Artists and the Marketplace, 13
2. An Emerging Reality: Court Art and the Ars Nova, 33
3. Pride of Place: Art in the Cities, 67
4. Tangible Success: Early Portraits and Domestic Art, 93
5. The Inner Gaze: Private Devotional Art, 119
6. The Well-Dressed Church: The Materialization of Faith, 147
7. Dancing with Death: The Art of Dying Well, 197
8. Mass Communication: Prints and Printmaking, 239
9. Beyond Mere Craft: The Knowledgeable Artist, 273
10. Theatre of the World: Exploring Nature and Human Nature, 309
11. Reading Pictures: The Reformation's Challenge, 351
12. The Artist and the Connoisseur: Courts, Cities and Collectors, 381
Epilogue, 409
Glossary, 422
Brief Biographies, 424
Key Dates, 430
Map, 435
Further Reading, 436
Index, 441
Acknowledgements, 446
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