Sztuka Burgundii i Niderlandów 1380-1500. T. II: Niderlandzkie malarstwo tablicowe 1430-1500
Art of Burgundy and the Netherlands 1380-1500. Volumen II: Netherlandish panel painting 1430-1500

Author(s): Antoni Ziemba
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: art of Burgundy; art of Netherlands; North European art
Summary/Abstract: This volume discusses the Netherlandish panel painting and graphics of the era of van Eyck, van der Weyden, Memling and Bosch. It presents original functions of paintings and their religious messages, it follows the technical procedures as well as the workshop and commercial strategies of the painters, it reveals the stereotypes and myths built around the works of masters. The author emphasizes the issues that were especially interesting for the researchers during the last 50 years, mostly the discoveries and interpretations from the 1990s and the beginning of 21st century.Second of three volumes presenting the synthesis of the artistic culture in an important region of old Europe, written by the expert on the subject. The series can be read as a thorough analysis for the specialists, as a coursebook for the students and as an interesting book for the wider public.

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