From Library Journal
Focused on the marvelous collections of London's National Gallery and written by gallery staff, this is an accessible consideration of picture types (altarpieces, private devotions, palace decoration) and technique (painting on panel, painting on canvas, and preparatory drawings and studies) in the age of discovery. Using the collection for interpretive writing of high quality makes this more than just a catalog of pictures done at the same time and now in the same place. The authors provide detailed discussions of particular works and fit them into the artistic framework and understanding of the time, a time when art schools began to develop and when the world known to Europeans was expanding exponentially. A fine addition to both general and specialized art collections, this is highly recommended for all readers.-Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The successor to Giotto to Durer (1991), which displayed and discussed the early Renaissance holdings of the National Gallery in London, differs from it by treating the museum's sixteenth-century holdings topically rather than in separate considerations of individual artworks. Each of nine chapters concentrates on a particular broad thematic, formal, functional, or technical aspect of easel paintings. The first chapter, for instance, is on imagery and its meanings; the second discusses altarpieces; the fourth looks at paintings commissioned for display in palaces; and the seventh is about preparing the panel, the typical painting medium of a time when the use of stretched canvas was not yet predominant. Thus, the book affords a rich learning experience about painting practice as well as 385 beautiful and informative illustrations. Ray Olson
Book Description
This beautiful volume, companion to the earlier, highly regarded Giotto to Dürer, is a guide to the sixteenth-century paintings of London's National Gallery. It examines the finest works of such artists as Holbein, Raphael, Cranach, Titian, Gossaert, and Bronzino and provides fascinating insights into the individual masterpieces and their makers.
From the Publisher
Published in association with the National Gallery, London
From the Back Cover
"A readable overview of European painting in the sixteenth century, rich with perceptive commentary." -Andrew Butterfield, Art News "This fluently written and beautifully produced book serves both as a period survey and as a reference for sixteenth-century European painting in the collections of the National Gallery." -Jeffrey Fontana, Sixteenth Century Journal Selected by Choice as an outstanding academic title for 2000
About the Author
Jill Dunkerton is restorer in the Conservation Department; Susan Foister is curator of Early Netherlandish, German, and British Painting; and Nicholas Penny is keeper and Clore Curator of Renaissance Art, all at the National Gallery, London.
Durer to Veronese: Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery FROM THE PUBLISHER
Focusing on the outstanding sixteenth-century European paintings in the National Gallery, London, this book is an eagerly awaited companion to Giotto to Diirer, the highly regarded guide to the National Gallery's Early Renaissance holdings. As beautiful and authoritative as the preceding volume, Diirer to Veronese examines the finest work of such artists as Holbein, Raphael, Cranach, Titian, Gossaert and Bronzino -- creators of some of the most important masterpieces of the sixteenth century. The authors look closely at a variety of types of painting -- including large altarpieces, small domestic devotional images, diplomatic gifts, furniture decorations and both intimate and full-length portraits -- as well as frescoes, drawings and prints. They provide fascinating insights into the meaning of individual pictures and into the purposes they were intended to serve, and they explore the social position of the artist in the 1500s. In addition, the book provides the fullest and most up-to-date account yet made of the procedures, practices and materials these artists employed.
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