Flemish Painting - From Hieronymus Bosch to Rubens (Art Ebook)

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Название: Flemish Painting - From Hieronymus Bosch to Rubens (Art Ebook)

Издательство:Albert Skira Publisher

Автор: STBGD Trusted

Год: 1957

Количество страниц:208

Язык:English

Формат:pdf

Размер:36,9 Mb

Though the spirit of the Flemish Primitives remained active throughout the 15th

century in all the towns where that art of precise and patient craftsmanship had

arisen, it is with the age-old city of Bruges that we associate its most brilliant manifestations.

But in the next century, when the tranquillity of Flanders was rudely shaken

by the influx of Renaissance ideology, by the religious controversies of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, by the rise of nationalism and the political upheavals of the western world, the center of gravity shifted to Antwerp, which now became the headquarters of the leading artists and humanists of the day. It was at Antwerp that the vital forces of Flemish genius found expression in the 16th century and from there that they spread abroad, making their imprint on many foreign schools