European Art of the Fifteenth Century

European Art of the Fifteenth Century
Author: Stefano Zuffi
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368310

Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, still popular at the beginning of the century, was giving way to the influence of Early Netherlandish Flemish masters such as Jan van Eyck, who emphasized narrative and the complex use of light for symbolic meaning. Patrons favored paintings in oil and on wooden panels for works ranging from large, hinged altarpieces to small, increasingly lifelike portraits. In the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice, and Mantua, artists and architects alike perfected existing techniques and developed new ones. The painter Masaccio mastered linear perspective; the sculptor Donatello produced anatomically correct but idealized figures such as his bronze nude of David; and the brilliant architect and engineer Brunelleschi integrated Gothic and Renaissance elements to build the self-supporting dome of the Florence Cathedral. This beautifully illustrated guide analyzes the most important people, places, and concepts of this early Renaissance period, whose explosion of creativity was to spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth century

European Art of the Sixteenth Century

European Art of the Sixteenth Century
Author: Stefano Zuffi
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368464

In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent. Part of the "Art through the Centuries" series, this volume is divided into three sections that discuss the important people, concepts, and artistic centres of this period.

Origins of European Printmaking

Origins of European Printmaking
Author: Peter W. Parshall
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300113390

The first comprehensive history of late medieval printmaking, which transformed image production and led to profound changes in Western culture

European Art of the Fourteenth Century

European Art of the Fourteenth Century
Author: Sandra Baragli
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368594

Fourteenth-century Europe was ravaged by famine, war, and, most devastatingly, the Black Plague. These widespread crises inspired a mystical religiosity, which emphasized both ecstatic joy and extreme suffering, producing emotionally charged and often graphic depictions of the Crucifixion and the martyrdoms of the saints. This third volume in the Art through the Centuries series highlights the most noteworthy concepts, geographic centers, and artists of this turbulent century. Important facts about the subjects under discussion are summarized in the margins of each entry, and salient features of the illustrated art works are identified and discussed.

Sephardic Book Art of the 15th Century

Sephardic Book Art of the 15th Century
Author: Luís Urbano Afonso
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9781909400597

The current volume presents ten different studies dealing with the final stages of Hebrew book art production in medieval Iberia. Ranging from the Farhi Codex, copied and illuminated in the late 14th century, to the Philadelphia Bible, copied and illuminated in Lisbon in 1496, this volume discusses a wide scope of topics related with the production, consumption and circulation of medieval decorated Hebrew manuscripts. Among the issues discussed in this volume we highlight the role played by three distinct artistic languages (Mudejar, Late Gothic and Renaissance) in the shapping of 15th century Sephardic illumination, the codicological specificity of some solutions in terms of layout and the relation between the layout of these manuscripts and Hebrew incunabula, the use of geometric decoration in scientific diagrams, or the afterlife of these manuscripts in Europe and Asia following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia.

The Woodcut in Fifteenth-century Europe

The Woodcut in Fifteenth-century Europe
Author: Peter W. Parshall
Publisher: Ngw-Stud Hist Art
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The advent of printing in Western Europe is a familiar historical milestone; far less known is the emergence of a technology of image printing more than a generation before Gutenberg.

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy
Author: Michael Baxandall
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1988
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780192821447

An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time helped fashion distinctive elements in the painter's style.

Painting in France in the 15th Century

Painting in France in the 15th Century
Author: Frédéric Elsig
Publisher: 5Continents
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This examination of a distinctive period of French painting discusses the interrelated artistic cities and regions that formed essential links in Renaissance-era artistic exchanges. The interaction between the French courts and Paris during the International Gothic period, the diffusion of ars nova in France during the days of Charles VII and Louis XI, and the standardization of a French style based on Jean Fouquet's model are among the artistic geographies considered in this analysis. Reproductions of key works that illustrate cultural confluences accompany an updated introduction to the scholarship of these relationships.

Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-century European Drawings

Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-century European Drawings
Author: Egbert Haverkamp Begemann (Kunsthistoriker)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 490
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0870999184

"Early European art was a consuming interest of both Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, an interest reflected in the remarkable number and quality of drawings they owned from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In addition to an important group of early German drawings, the collection includes a "Saint Paul" from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the famous "Scupstoel" from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden, the only design for a decorative sculpture to survive from the fifteenth century. The great artists of the seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, Claude Lorrain, and Rembrandt among them, are also represented, Rembrandt by seven drawings, including the large study of Leonardo's "Last Supper" that would stay in his mind all through his career. Drawings by Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Thomas Gainsborough, Paul Sandby, and George Romney are among the many from eighteenth-century France and England. The volume discusses all 153 drawings at length, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing the discussion with comparative illustrations of related works." This e-book on the MetPublications website is also accompanied by links to related works and under the "Additional resources"tab are links to Met works of art and Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History essays and timelines (viewed May 1, 2014).

European Art and the Wider World 1350–1550

European Art and the Wider World 1350–1550
Author: Kathleen Christian
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2018-07-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 152612291X

Focuses on issues of assimilation, translation and misunderstanding as art objects moved between cultures, either literally or imaginatively, and considers how visual culture expresses the increasing contact between Europe and the rest of the world in this era.