1 option
Living pictures : Jan van Eyck and painting's first century / Noa Turel.
Fine Arts Library ND673.E9 T87 2020
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turel, Noa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting, Flemish--15th century.
- Painting, Flemish.
- Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440.
- Eyck, Jan van.
- Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440--Criticism and interpretation.
- Weyden, Rogier van der, 1399 or 1400-1464.
- Weyden, Rogier van der.
- Physical Description:
- 189 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Western art, they also ushered in new ways of seeing the world. This highly original book explores Van Eyck's pivotal work, as well as panels by Rogier van der Weyden and their followers, to understand how viewers came to appreciate a world depicted in two dimensions. Through careful examination of primary documents, Noa Turel reveals that paintings were consistently described as au vif: made not 'from life' but 'into life.' Animation, not representation, drove Van Eyck and his contemporaries. Turel's interpretation reverses the commonly held belief that these artists were inspired by the era's burgeoning empiricism, proposing instead that their 'living pictures' helped create the conditions for empiricism. Illustrated with exquisite fifteenth-century paintings, this volume asserts these works' key role in shaping, rather than simply mirroring, the early modern world." --Publisher's website and inside front flap of dustjacket.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Drawing Miracles
- ch. 2 Resuscitating Sculpture
- ch. 3 The Painter as Alchemist
- ch. 4 Painting in the Round
- ch. 5 Making Histories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-182) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780300247572
- 0300247575
- OCLC:
- 1121604959
- Publisher Number:
- 99992577190
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.