Kategoria BISAC: Art >> European

This volume concerns works by artists active during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the transalpine lands of northern Europe, which eventually became the modern nations of Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The early Northern pictures feature masterpieces by great artists such as Petrus Christus and Joachim Wtewael, as well as radiant examples by other notable artists such as Lucas Cranach the Elder, Bernard van Orley, Jan Gossart, and Hans Memling.

Each of the twenty-five comprehensive entries by Burton L. Dunbar includes a thorough and engaging account of the artist's...

• A stellar collection of 23 classic and recent essays on the art and architecture of this fascinating period in art history
  
• Brings together in a single volume, important literature on sixteenth-century Italian art from the last half century, highlighting major topics of recent...

• A stellar collection of 23 classic and recent essays on the art and architecture of this fascinating period in art history
  
• Brings together in a single volume, important literature on sixteenth-century Italian art from the last half century, highlighting major topics of recent...

• Demonstrates the continued life of these objects well past the deaths of their creators and patrons.
  
• Contains a series of original contributions by young scholars, representing a broad range of...

This book explores the material and visual world of the socialist Bloc from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. The essays, by authors from a range of disciplines, examine the forms and uses of material objects that made up the environment of life behind the 'Iron Curtain', and investigates the particular ways in which these objects came to represent the often divergent aspirations of regimes and peoples in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

The two decades after the end of the Second World War considered here constitute two contrasting periods: that of post-war Stalinism and the...

Renaissance Italy is often characterized as a place of unusual tolerance and privilege toward Jews. Unlike England, France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, the princely courts of early modern Italy, particularly Urbino, Mantua, and Ferrara, offered economic and social prosperity to Jews. When anti-Jewish hostilities created civic tumult in this region, secular authorities promptly contained the violence.

Yet this written record tells only one part of the story. Pictures tell another. In The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance, Dana E. Katz reveals how Renaissance...