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European Art of the Fifteenth Century (Paperback)
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European Art of the Fifteenth Century (Paperback)
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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.
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