Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575

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Abrams, 1985 - Art - 559 pages
Pt. 1. The international style. The backgrounds ; Bohemia ; The Valois courts ; The Rhenish-Mosan crescent. -- pt. 2. Painting, graphics, and sculpture in the Netherlands, Germany, and France from 1425 to 1500. Jan van Eyck ; Robert Campin and Rogier van der Weyden ; The northerners ; Two mystics ; The late Gothic dream ; Gardens of heaven and hell in the art of Bosch ; Diversity along the Rhine ; The impact of Netherlandish art on German painting of the later fifteenth century ; Painting in France during the second half of the fifteenth century ; Graphic arts before 1500 ; Developments in sculpture in the fifteenth century. -- pt. 3. The Renaissance in Germany, the Netherlands, and France from 1500 to 1575. Albrecht Dürer and the Renaissance in Germany ; The Isenheim altarpiece and Matthias Grünewald ; Danube landscapes and witches: Albrecht Altdorfer and Hans Baldung Grien ; Lucas Cranach the Elder: the conflicts of humanism and the Reformation ; Hans Holbein the Younger and the Renaissance portrait ; Antwerp: Quentin Metsys, Joachim Patinir, and Joos van Cleve ; Two currents in later South Netherlandish painting: the romanists and specialists ; Holland: Amsterdam, Delft, and Haarlem ; Lucas van Leyden ; Jan van Scorel, Maerten van Heemskerck, and Antonis Mor ; The Theatrum orbis terrarum of Pieter Bruegel the Elder ; Fontainebleau and the court style of France. -- Genealogy of the House of Valois. -- Timetable of the arts, history, and science 1300-1575.

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Preface and Acknowledgments 79
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The Backgrounds 151
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Bohemia
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