Durer to Veronese : Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery,9780300072204

Durer to Veronese : Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery

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ISBN13: 9780300072204
ISBN10: 0300072201
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 1999-12-11
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary

Focusing on the outstanding sixteenth-century European paintings in the National Gallery, London, this new book is an eagerly awaited companion to Giotto to Durer, the highly regarded guide to the National Gallery's early Renaissance holdings. As beautiful and authoritative as the preceding volume, Durer to Veronese examines the finest works 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 meanings of individual pictures and into the purposes they were originally 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

Author Biography

Jill Dunkerton is restorer of the Conservation Department at the National Gallery, London.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements vi
Maps
vii
Chronology x
Introduction The New World and the Old 1(8)
Power and Imagery
9(28)
The Altarpiece
37(30)
Private Devotion
67(20)
Paintings for Palaces
87(54)
Description and the Ideal
141(42)
Preparing to Paint
183(28)
Preparing the Panel
211(26)
Paintings on Panel
237(28)
Original Developments
265(28)
Conclusion Towards the Academy 293(5)
References 298(14)
Index 312(5)
Picture Credits 317

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