Durer to Veronese : Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery

by Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, and Nicholas Penny

• ISBN13: 9780300072204
• ISBN10: 0300072201
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-12-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Focusing on the outstanding sixteenth-century European paintings in the National Gallery, London, this new book is an eagerly awaited companion to Giotto to Durer, the highly regarded guide to the National Gallery's early Renaissance holdings. As beautiful and authoritative as the preceding volume, Durer to Veronese examines the finest works of such artists as Holbein, Raphael, Cranach, Titian, Gossaert, and Bronzino -- creators of some of the most important masterpieces of the sixteenth century.

The authors look closely at a variety of types of painting -- including large altarpieces, small domestic, devotional images, diplomatic gifts, furniture decorations, and both intimate and full-length portraits -- as well as frescoes, drawings, and prints. They provide fascinating insights into the meanings of individual pictures and into the purposes they were originally intended to serve, and they explore the social position of the artist in the 1500s. In addition, the book provides the fullest and most up-to-date account yet made of the procedures, practices, and

Author Biography

Jill Dunkerton is restorer of the Conservation Department at the National Gallery, London.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	vi
Maps	vii
Chronology	x
Introduction The New World and the Old	1	(8)
Power and Imagery	9	(28)
The Altarpiece	37	(30)
Private Devotion	67	(20)
Paintings for Palaces	87	(54)
Description and the Ideal	141	(42)
Preparing to Paint	183	(28)
Preparing the Panel	211	(26)
Paintings on Panel	237	(28)
Original Developments	265	(28)
Conclusion Towards the Academy	293	(5)
References	298	(14)
Index	312	(5)
Picture Credits	317