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Title: Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Durer, and Titian by Bernard Aikema, Beverly Louise Brown, Bernard Aikeman, Giovanna Nepi Scire, Italy Ministero Per I Beni E Le Attivita Culturali, Palazzo Grassi ISBN: 0-8478-2195-1 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
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Summary: Renaissance Crosscurrents
Comment: When I was a kid, getting art books from the public library, there were dozens of books about the Italian Renaissance and only one about the Renaissance in the north. Van Eyck, Van der Weyden, Memling, all of them were crammed together in one book and called by the derogatory-sounding name of "Flemish Primitives".
Happily, new books in recent years have begun to give the northern painters their due. Books by Dirk de Vos, Otto Pacht, and a recent catalog from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ("Van Eyck to Bruegel"), among others, have given us the chance to see splendid reproductions of some of the most enchanting, jewel-like paintings in the world. Recent books on Gerard David and Petrus Christus, also from the Metropolitan, have even turned the spotlight on these less well-known painters who can easily come to win a place in your list of favorites.
Still, though, there was a strong sense that North was North and South was South and never the twain would meet. That idea has been eroding under recent scholarship, however, as researchers have begun to make clear the influences and crosscurrents that occurred between Italy and the north countries of Europe. More than some of us might have guessed, there was a lot of exchange going on. Painters from Durer to Bruegel travelled to Italy to learn what they could of the traditions there, and painters as thoroughly Italian as Raphael and Botticelli took ideas from what they knew of the north.
These exchanges have now been very thoroughly spelled out in a new book from Rizzoli that accompanied a recent exhibition in Venice. It is a huge thick block of a book, with 210 color plates and hundreds -- possibly thousands -- of black and white reproductions of drawings, prints, etc., -- anything that sheds light on how artistic ideas travelled up and down over the Alps. The print is small, and comes four columns to a page in some spots, with copious footnotes. In other words, it seems as if the editors of this book have taken on the ambitious task of filling in a fascinating blank in the history of art by pouring everything they know into one gigantic book. If either the Italian or the Northern Renaissance, or how the two rubbed together, is of interest to you, this book will fascinate you with details, comparisons, and unexpected connections.
It's sad to say that sometimes the reproductions are not what they could be. Many are much darker than the original paintings. This is the first time I have seen a reproduction of Giovanni Bellini's Pieta since it was cleaned, and it is looking very good indeed, but the photo of the Van der Weyden Lamentation on the preceding page is badly out of focus. If you are looking for gorgeous lusciousness in an art book, this would not be the one for you. For sheer quantity and historical interest, though, this is a prize.
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Title: Bronzino by Maurice Brock ISBN: 2080108778 Publisher: Flammarion Pub. Date: 16 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: The CraftsmanÂs Handbook by Cennino Cennini ISBN: 048620054X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1954 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting by Gary Tinterow, Genevieve Lacambre, Deborah L. Roldan, Musee D'Orsay, N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York ISBN: 0300098804 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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