Author: M.B. McNamee
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Keywords: paintings, liturgia, condenda, netherlandish, allusions, angels, eucharistic, vested
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 9042900075
ISBN-13: 9789042900073

McNamee’s detailed and well illustrated new study is about eucharistic symbolism in Early Netherlandish painting. It focuses on the pervading presence of the vested angel in this school of painting and its eucharistic significance. These angels, dressed in every possible variation of the vestments of the subministers of the traditional Solemn High Mass, are represented as serving the Christ in each episode of His life. As celebrant of the Eternal Liturgy, Christ is shown wearing "the chasuble of his flesh". the motif of the Eternal Liturgy (or Mass) in the Byzantine tradition. Here Chris

Authors:Henk van Veen, Bernhard Ridderbos,
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: research, reception, rediscovery, paintings, netherlandish
Number of Pages: 554
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $72.25
ISBN-10: 9053566147
ISBN-13: 9789053566145

The so-called Flemish Primitives, a group of fifteenth-century painters from the southern Netherlands, acquired their name in the nineteenth century. Among them were world-famous artists such as Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, the brothers Van Eyck, and Huge van der Goes. Their masterpieces, oil paintings minutely detailed in luminous color, are a high point of Western European art, which, together with the Italian Renaissance paintings, laid the foundations for modern art. This book focuses on the artistic, religious, and social significance of their art and its iconographic interpretati

Authors:Amy Golahny, Mia M. Mochizuki, Lisa Vergara,
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: john, michael, montias, memory, art, essays, netherlandish, milieu
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 9053569332
ISBN-13: 9789053569337

Gathered in honor of John Michael Montias (1928–2005), the foremost scholar on Johannes Vermeer and a pioneer in the study of the socioeconomic dimensions of art, the essays in In His Milieu are an essential contribution to the study of the social functions of making, collecting, displaying, and donating art. The nearly forty essays here by—all internationally recognized experts in the fields of art history and the economics of art—are especially revealing about the Renaissance and Baroque eras and present new material on such artists as Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Rubens, and da Vinci.

Author: Maartje van Gelder
Publisher: Brill
Keywords: library, economic, history, venice, modern, places, netherlandish, merchants, trading
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 2009-06-30
List price: $147.00
ISBN-10: 9004175431
ISBN-13: 9789004175433

Trading Places: The Netherlandish Merchants in Early Modern Venice (Library of Economic History) Author: Maartje van GelderPublisher: BrillList Price: $147.00Buy New: $128.10as of 12/11/2009 10:52 CST detailsYou Save: $18.90 (13%) New (8) Used (2) from $128.10Seller: a1booksMedia: HardcoverPages: 243Number Of Items: 1Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.7ISBN: 9004175431Dewey Decimal Number: 382.094531100893931EAN: 9789004175433ASIN: 9004175431Publication Date: June 30, 2009Availability:&n