Jan Gossart and the invention of Netherlandish antiquity / Marisa Anne Bass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bass, Marisa, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gossaert, Jan, approximately 1478-approximately 1532--Criticism and interpretation.

Gossaert, Jan.

Gossaert, Jan, approximately 1478-approximately 1532.

Gossaert, Jan, approximately 1472-1532.

Gossaert, Jan--Criticism and interpretation.

Mythology, Classical, in art.

History in art.

Historiography.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Netherlands--Historiography--History--16th century.

Netherlands.

Netherlands--Intellectual life--16th century.

Intellectual life.

Netherlands--Historiography--16th century.

Local Subjects:

Gossaert, Jan, approximately 1472-1532.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 211 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Summary:

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. -- Amazon.com.

Contents:

Embodied Past

Land

Lineage

Legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-202) and index.

ISBN:

9780691169996

0691169993

OCLC:

913829475

Publisher Number:

40025905911