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Marilyn Stokstad, teacher, art historian, and museum curator, has been a leader in her field for decades and has served as president of the College Art Association and the International Center of Medieval Art. In 2002, she was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the National Women’s Caucus for Art. In 1997, she was awarded the Governor’s Arts Award as Kansas Art Educator of the Year and an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters by Carleton College. She is Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She has also served in various leadership capacities at the University’s Spencer Museum of Art and is Consultative Curator of Medieval Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri
Michael W. Cothren is Scheuer Family Professor of Humanities at Swarthmore College, where he has also served as Art Department Chair, Coordinator of Medieval Studies, and Divisional Chair of the Humanities. Since arriving at Swarthmore in 1978, he has taught specialized courses on Medieval, Roman, and Islamic art and architecture, as well as seminars on visual narrative and on theory and method, but he particularly enjoys teaching the survey to Swarthmore beginners. His research and publications focus on French Gothic art and architecture, most recently in a book on the stained glass of Beauvais Cathedral entitled Picturing the Celestial City. Michael is a consultative curator at the Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. He has served on the board of the International Center of Medieval Art and as President both of the American Committee of the International Corpus Vitrearum and of his local school board. When not teaching, writing, or pursuing art historical research, you can finding him hiking in the red rocks around Sedona, Arizona.
BRIEF CONTENTS
CONTENTS vii
PREFACE xii
WHAT’S NEW xiv
FACULTY AND STUDENT RESOURCES FOR ART HISTORY xviii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND GRATITUDE xix
USE NOTES xxi
STARTER KIT xxii
INTRODUCTION xxvi
Chapter 17 FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE 529
Chapter 18 FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE 561
Chapter 19 RENAISSANCE ART IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY ITALY 593
Chapter 20 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN ITALY 631
Chapter 21 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE IBERIAN PENINSULA 677
Chapter 22 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE 711
CONTEMPORARY WORLD MAP
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CREDITS
INDEX
DETAILED CONTENTS
CONTENTS vii
PREFACE xiv
WHAT’S NEW xv
FACULTY AND STUDENT RESOURCES FOR ART HISTORY xviii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND GRATITUDE xix
USE NOTES xxi
STARTER KIT xxii
INTRODUCTION xxvi
CHAPTER 17 FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE 529
FOURTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE 530
ITALY 531
Florentine Architecture and Metalwork 532
Florentine Painting 532
Sienese Painting 539
FRANCE 547
Manuscript Illumination 547
Metalwork and Ivory 549
ENGLAND 552
Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum 552
Architecture 554
THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE 554
Mysticism and Suffering 554
The Supremacy of Prague 555
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
A New Spirit in Fourteenth-Century Literature 531
The Black Death 546
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
An Ivory Chest with Scenes of Romance 550
A CLOSER LOOK
The Hours of Jeanne d’Évreux 548
TECHNIQUE
Buon Fresco 537
Cennino Cennini on Panel Painting 542
CHAPTER 18 FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE 561
THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE 562
ART FOR THE FRENCH DUCAL COURTS 562
Painting and Sculpture for the Chartreuse de Champmol 562
Manuscript Illumination 566
Textiles 568
PAINTING IN FLANDERS 571
The Founders of the Flemish School 571
Painting at Mid Century: The Second Generation 580
EUROPE BEYOND FLANDERS 583
France 584
Germany and Switzerland 586
THE GRAPHIC ARTS 589
Single Sheets 589
Printed Books 589
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Altars and Altarpieces 564
Women Artists in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 566
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Ghent Altarpiece 576
A CLOSER LOOK
A Goldsmith in his Shop 581
TECHNIQUE
Oil Painting 571
Woodcuts and Engravings on Metal 590
CHAPTER 19 RENAISSANCE ART IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY 593
HUMANISM AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE 594
FLORENCE 594
Architecture 595
Sculpture 602
Painting 609
Painting in Florence after Masaccio 612
ITALIAN ART IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY 615
Urbino 615
Mantua 620
Rome 621
The Later Fifteenth Century in Florence 623
Venice 627
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Competition Reliefs 601
The Morelli–Nerli Wedding Chests 616
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
The Foundling Hospital 598
A CLOSER LOOK
Primavera 626
TECHNIQUE
Renaissance Perspective 608
CHAPTER 20 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN ITALY 631
EUROPE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 632
ITALY IN THE EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY: THE HIGH RENAISSANCE 632
Three Great Artists of the Early Sixteenth Century 633
Architecture in Rome and the Vatican 650
Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture in Northern Italy 650
Venice and the Veneto 654
MANNERISM 659
Painting 660
Sculpture 665
ART AND THE COUNTER-REFORMATION 666
Art and Architecture in Rome and the Vatican 666
LATER SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN VENICE AND THE VENETO 670
Oil Painting 670
Architecture: Palladio 672
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Vitruvian Man 637
St. Peter’s Basilica 651
Women Patrons of the Arts 658
Veronese is Called before the Inquisition 671
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Raphael’s Cartoons for Tapestries in the Sistine Chapel 646
A CLOSER LOOK
The School of Athens 640
CHAPTER 21 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE IBERIAN PENINSULA 677
THE REFORMATION AND THE ARTS 678
GERMANY 679
Sculpture 679
Painting 680
FRANCE 689
A French Renaissance under Francis I 689
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 692
Architecture 694
Painting 694
THE NETHERLANDS 696
Art for Aristocratic and Noble Patrons 696
Antwerp 701
ENGLAND 705
Artists in the Tudor Court 705
Architecture 708
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
The Castle of the Ladies 690
Sculpture for the Knights of Christ at Tomar 693
Armor for Royal Games 707
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Breugel’s Cycle of the Months 702
A CLOSER LOOK
The French Ambassadors 704
TECHNIQUE
German Metalwork: A Collaborative Venture 684
CHAPTER 22 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ART IN EUROPE 711
“BAROQUE” 712
ITALY 712
Architecture and Sculpture in Rome 712
Painting 718
SPAIN 729
Painting in Spain’s Golden Age 729
Architecture in Spain 734
FLANDERS AND THE NETHERLANDS 735
Flanders 735
The Dutch Republic 742
France 755
Architecture and its Decoration at Versailles 758
Painting 759
ENGLAND 765
Architecture 765
BOXES
ART AND ITS CONTEXTS
Science and the Changing Worldview 756
Grading the Old Masters 764
THE OBJECT SPEAKS
Caravaggio in the Contarelli Chapel 722
A CLOSER LOOK
Brueghel and Rubens’s Allegory of Sight 740
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
Seventeenth-Century French Garden Design 760
TECHNIQUE
Etchings and Drypoint 748
CONTEMPORARY WORLD MAP
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CREDITS
INDEX
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