Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9780691169996 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str.

Bass, Marisa Anne

Opis

This is the first in-depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the Netherlandish artist's life and art, Marisa Anne Bass shows how Gossart's paintings were part of a larger cultural effort in the Netherlands to assert the region's ancient heritage as distinct from the antiquity and presumed cultural hegemony of Rome.
Focusing on Gossart's vibrant, monumental mythological nudes, the book challenges previous interpretations by arguing that Gossart and his patrons did not slavishly imitate Italian Renaissance models but instead sought to contest the idea that the Roman past gave the Italians a monopoly on antiquity. Drawing on many previously unused primary sources in Latin, Dutch, and French, Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity offers a fascinating new understanding of both the painter and the history of northern European art at large.

Recenzje

"With great enthusiasm and erudition, Marisa Anne Bass situates Jan Gossart in the intellectual network of his Netherlandish patrons and thoroughly investigates the literary output of the humanist circles that he and his patrons moved in. Bass has unearthed a vast number of important texts that shed light on the intellectual concerns of the period."--Dagmar Eichberger, University of Trier and University of Heidelberg

O autorze

Marisa Anne Bass is assistant professor in the Art History and Archaeology Department at Washington University in St. Louis.