Binding: Hardcover
Description: The first English - language study of Jan Gossart one of the leading painters of the Northern Renaissance This is the first in - depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 1478 1532) one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the Netherlandish artist's life and art Marisa Anne Bass shows how Gossart's paintings were part of a larger cultural effort in the Netherlands to assert the region's ancient heritage as distinct from the antiquity and presumed cultural hegemony of Rome. Focusing on Gossart's vibrant monumental mythological nudes the book challenges previous interpretations by arguing that Gossart and his patrons did not slavishly imitate Italian Renaissance models but instead sought to contest the idea that the Roman past gave the Italians a monopoly on antiquity. Drawing on many previously unused primary sources in Latin Dutch and French Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity offers a fascinating new understanding of both the painter and the history of northern European art at large.
Title: Jan Gossart And The Invention Of Netherlandish Antiquity
Author(s): Bass Marisa Anne
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691169996
Pages: 224 Pages, 40 Color + 57 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 3/29/2016
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs