This handsome book presents an overview of Netherlandish art from 1400 to 1600 by focusing on one hundred works of art, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and decorative arts, from the unparalleled collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Eminent art authorities place these works in the context of their fascinating period in history and discuss their origins, significance, and distinguishing features.This is the first of a four-volume series on Dutch art focusing on the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Published in association with Waanders Publishers and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Netherlandish Art 1400-1600

Arts & Photography

Scholten, Frits

Van Os, Henk

Kok, Jan Piet Fildet

Luijten, Get

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Professor van Os has spent twenty years working on Tuscan painting, and his contributions to the study of the Sienese school are of great importance. This volume brings together for the first time his articles on Tuscan art in the period leading up to the Renaissance in Florence and Siena. They represent one of the most important individual approaches to the subject in recent decades. A number of the studies reprinted here have been specially translated from Dutch for this book. The volume begins with five studies on problems of methodology involved in dealing with the art of this period. Eight further studies follow on the iconography of early Tuscan art. Finally eight studies deal with individual Sienese painters.

Studies in Early Tuscan Painting

Pindar Press

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the leading artist of the German Romantic Movement, provides the focus for this fascinating book, which contextualises the artist's work in relation to his German predecessors, contemporaries and followers while also examining the important role which Russian collectors played in the development of this naturalistic genre. Inhospitable, ancient and timeless landscapes characterise Friedrich's haunting paintings, and while there are clear stylistic differences between his works and those of his contemporaries, the significance of nature versus the insignificance of man is the common theme that links the images reproduced here. This Romantic sensibility was shared by active Russian patrons, among them Emperor Nicholas I (under the influence of his wife, Prussian Princess Charlotte) and the poet Vasily Zhukovsky.This link draws out fascinating information about the lesser known but important artist Carl Fohr, whose tragically short career was enthusiastically supported by Princess Wilhelmina von Hessen (her daughter, Princess Maximiliana Wilhelmina of Hesse, later Empress Maria Alexandrovna, bought the works to Russia). The work of Carl von Kugelgen, who won commissions from the Russian court, is also examined in detail. Presenting magnificent works held in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, which has the largest collection of works by Friedrich outside Germany, "Caspar David Friedrich and the German Romantic Landscape" combines sumptuous imagery with an insightful, scholarly narrative.

Caspar David Friedrich & The German Romantic Landscape

Piotrovsky, Mikhail B.

Veen, Ernst W.

Stumpel, Jeroen

Asvarisc, Boris

Lund Humphries Pub Ltd

With examples of European devotional art from the two centuries before the Reformation, the veil is drawn on the prayer and meditation 'exercises' once practised by the clergy and high-placed laity.

The Art of Devotion, in the Late Middle Ages in Europe - 1300-1500

Honee, Eugene

Nieuwdorp, Hans

Merrell Holberton

Inspired by the Florentine sidewalk artists decked out in period costume and mimicking Dante and Leonardo, lauded Dutch painter Daan van Golden, whose career honors stretch from Documenta 4in 1968 to the Venice Biennalein 1999 to the Heineken Prize for Art in 2004, captured them on video, stills from which are collected here.

Daan Van Golden: Dante E Leonardo

Individual Artists

Artimo

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