For introductory college courses in Renaissance Art. It is also suitable as a supplement for history courses that survey the period. In this series, accomplished authors accurately cover a range of subjects using up-to-date methodologies and impressive visual formats. Additionally, all titles are mo[...]
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, Durer and other masters are considered within the larger context of a changing society in which church and state, Protestant and Catholic, man and wo[...]
Jan van Eyck's surviving work comprises a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most explanations of the meanings behind these paintings have been grounded in the disguised religious symbolism critics have insisted are uppermost in them. But in Jan van Eyck: T[...]