A arte renascentista do Norte da Europa

Numa prestigiada colecção de história da arte – a Oxford History of Art – acabou de ser publicado um volume para o qual contribuem significativamente os aspectos materiais das obras de arte, designadamente os obtidos através de estudos laboratoriais. Trata-se de:

Susie Nash, Northern Renaissance Art, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008.

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Índice:

• Introduction
• Problems and Perspectives
• Dispersal and destruction
• Italian perspectives
• Sources and documents
• Physical evidence and technical examination
• Markets for art: centres, products, and patrons
• Centres
• Products
• Patrons: importing art and artists
• Marketing art: artists and the contexts of creation
• The de Limbourgs in the service of jean de Berry
• Hans Memling painting panels in Bruges
• Printmakers in the Rhine Valley: inventing, marketing, and distributing images
• Declaring authorship and expertise: signatures and self-portraits
• Making images: equipment, materials, methods
• Workspace and equipment
• The workforce
• Materials, methods, and technical virtuosity
• Using and viewing
• Moving images
• Settings, vistas, and accoutrements for mass and prayer
• Meditation and imagination