A magnificent panorama of the creative revolutions of mid-15th-century Europe
From roughly the 1430s onward, inspired by developments in the Netherlands, artistic expression began to transform, as the depiction of light and shade, body and space came to be depicted with increasing realism. With advances in printing techniques, these innovations found mass distribution. Artists such as Nicolaus Gerhaert and Martin Schongauer became widely known and influenced the development of the visual arts throughout Europe and across all genres. Despite their primarily religious function, such images increasingly came to be conceived of as “works of art.”
Gathering around 120 objects, including outstanding loans and key works from the holdings of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, this substantial book traces the massive paradigm shifts of the Late Gothic period across artistic genres, from painting to sculpture and more.
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| Introduction: On Images and Their Use |
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Paths to the Museum: The Musealization of Medieval Art in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
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Era of Innovations: Painting in the Generation of Konrad Witz and Stefan Lochner |
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The Origins of Printmaking: Multiplication of Images |
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Stylistic Variants in the Middle of the Fifteenth Century |
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146 | (16) |
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Gutenberg and Imagery: Revolution in the Book Arts |
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170 | (26) |
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A European Pictorial Language: The Visual Arts after 1450 and the Model of Rogier van der Weyden |
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196 | (22) |
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204 | (14) |
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Interplay of Artistic Media |
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218 | (38) |
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Secular Decorative Arts in the Late Gothic Period |
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256 | (44) |
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264 | (36) |
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Space, Color, and Light: The Art of the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century |
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300 | (56) |
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Julien Chapuis has been the deputy director of the Bode-Museum (Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art) - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since 2008. From 1997 to 2007 he was a curator of medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, during which time he organized an exhibition on the German sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider. Stephan Kemperdick is a curator of early Netherlandish and early German painting at the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.
