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The mirror of the artist : northern Renaissance art in its historical context

Title
The mirror of the artist : northern Renaissance art in its historical context / Craig Harbison.
Author
Harbison, Craig.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Harry N. Abrams Inc., Publishers, 1995.

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Description
176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Perspectives
Uniform Title
Perspectives (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)
Subject
  • Art, Renaissance > Europe, Northern
  • Art, European
  • Art, Renaissance
  • Beeldende kunsten
  • Renaissance
  • Art, European > Europe, Northern
  • Northern Europe
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-172) and index.
Contents
The self-conscious pragmatic artist -- Church and state -- Artist and patron -- Individualism and self-awareness -- Hallmarks of the northern Renaissance -- Realism -- Fact, symbol, and ideal -- Manuscript illumination -- Style, technique, and scale in panel painting -- Space, perspective, and architecture -- Fragmentary realism -- Sculpture -- Realism and social class -- The vocabulary of bourgeois realism -- The Portinari triptych -- Sixteenth-century developments -- Physical production and original location -- The power of the guilds -- Commissions and contracts -- The open market -- The production of a panel painting -- Printmaking -- Function and content -- The Isenheim altarpiece -- Religious behaviour and ideals -- Controversy and corruption -- Personal religion -- The pilgrimage -- Stereotypes and originals -- The sixteenth-century Reformation -- Propaganda through art -- The transformation of religious imagery -- Artistic specialties and social developments -- Portrait imagery -- Landscape imagery -- Still-life and genre imagery -- Dogma into dialogue -- Italy and the north -- Northern artists' travels to Italy -- The revival of ancient art and subject matter -- The naked body -- Timeline.
ISBN
  • 0810927284
  • 9780810927285
  • 0133685497
  • 9780133685497
  • 0131833227
  • 9780131833227
LCCN
94048786
OCLC
  • ocm31777237
  • 31777237
  • SCSB-2068104
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library