From Van Eyck to Bruegel early Netherlandish painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art edited by Maryan W. Ainsworth and Keith Christiansen ; with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Julien Chapuis, Keith Christiansen, Everett Fahy, Nadine M. Orenstein, Véronique Sintobin, Della Clason Sperling, and Mary Sprinson de Jesús

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Contributor:

Ainsworth, Maryan W.

Christiansen, Keith

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Panel painting, Netherlandish--15th century--Exhibitions.

Panel painting, Netherlandish.

Panel painting, Netherlandish--16th century--Exhibitions.

Panel painting, Flemish--15th century--Exhibitions.

Panel painting, Flemish.

Panel painting, Flemish--16th century--Exhibitions.

Panel painting--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.

Panel painting.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Art criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 452 pages) illustrations (some color), map

Distribution:

New York Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated

Other Title:

Early Netherlandish painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Place of Publication:

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art [1998]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition From Van Eyck to Bruegel this book presents an overview of one of the great epochs of Western art as seen through the extensive collection of the Metropolitan Museum ... It opens about 1425 with the legendary inventor of oil painting, Jan van Eyck, and concludes with one of the most original geniuses of European art, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Virtually every major master active during this era is represented, including Van Eyck, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Dieric Bouts, Hugo van der Goes, Hans Memling, Gerard David, Joos van Cleve, Quentin Massys, Jan Gossart, Bernard van Orley, Joachim Patinir, and Bruegel"

"The volume is arranged thematically to emphasize the ways artists employed realism as a strategy. Introductory essays illuminate aspects of early Netherlandish painting: the history of its critical fortunes and scholarship; its acquisition by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century patrons; its relationship to Italian Renaissance painting; and the building of the Museum's collection in this area. Shorter essays that precede chapters of entries on individual pictures address religious painting, portraiture, and workshop practice and the art market, as well as the Bruges painter Gerard David and Bruegel's role in the development of modern landscape painting. The texts are lavishly supported by illustrations of works in the Museum's collection as well as comparative material"--Publisher's description

This profusely illustrated exhibition catalogue focuses on the comprehensive collection of major early Netherlandish works in the Metropolitan Museum, including accomplishments of virtually every key figure of the period. The volume contains commentaries on individual works, essays on broad issues, and an illustrated appendix of paintings not covered in the text. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website

Contents:

Early Netherlandish painting : shifting perspectives Julien Chapuis The business of art : patrons, clients, and art markets Maryan W. Ainsworth The view from Italy Keith Christiansen How the pictures got here Everett Fahy Religious painting from about 1420 to 1500 : in the eye of the beholder Maryan W. Ainsworth Portraiture : a meeting of the sacred and secular worlds Maryan W. Ainsworth Workshop practice in early Netherlandish painting : an inside view Maryan W. Ainsworth Gerard David : purity of vision in an age of transition Maryan W. Ainsworth Religious painting from 1500 to 1550 : continuity and innovation on the eve of the iconoclasm Maryan w. Ainswroth Bruegel, the land, and the peasants Nadine M. Orenstein

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 22, 1998-January 3, 1999

Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-440) and indexes

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). From Van Eyck to Bruegel

OCLC:

676721534