Northern Renaissance Art

by Nash, Susie

• ISBN13: 9780192842695
• ISBN10: 0192842692
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern Europe in the age of the Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixteenth century. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from inventories and guild regulations topoetry and chronicles, it examines everything from panel paintings to carved altarpieces. While many little-known works are foregrounded, Susie Nash also presents new ways of viewing and understanding the more familiar, such as the paintings of Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, and Hans Memling, by considering the social and economic context of their creation and reception.Throughout, Nash challenges the perception that Italy was the European leader in artistic innovation at this time, demonstrating forcefully that Northern art, and particularly that of the Southern Netherlands, dominated visual culture throughout Europe in this crucial period.

Author Biography

Susie Nash is senior lecturer in Northern Renaissance Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She is also the founder and director of the Courtauld Institute Summer School programme and has published widely on northern Renaissance art, including most recently a study of the famous Well of Moses by Claus Sluter.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	p. vii
Major Sea and Land Trade Routes	p. x
The Burgundian Netherlands	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Problems and Perspectives
Dispersal and Destruction	p. 11
Italian Perspectives	p. 27
Sources and Documents	p. 39
Physical Evidence and Technical Examination	p. 55
Markets for Art: Centres, Products, and Patrons
Centres	p. 71
Products	p. 87
Patrons: Importing Art and Artists	p. 101
Marketing Art: Artists and the Contexts of Creation
The de Limbourgs in the Service of Jean de Berry	p. 115
Hans Memling Painting Panels in Bruges	p. 121
Printmakers in the Rhine Valley Inventing, Marketing, and Distributing Images	p. 129
Declaring Authorship and Expertise: Signatures and Self-Portraits	p. 143
Making Images: Equipment, Materials, Methods
Workspace and Equipment	p. 157
The Workforce	p. 179
Materials, Methods, and Technical Virtuosity	p. 197
Using and Viewing
Moving Images	p. 229
Settings, Vistas, and Accoutrements for Mass and Prayer	p. 255
Meditation and Imagination	p. 271
Notes	p. 289
List of Illustrations	p. 315
Bibliographic Essay	p. 325
Index	p. 335
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