The Renaissance Venice and the North

A study of Renaissance Italy and the north, focusing on crosscurrents in the time of Durer, Bellini and Titian. It contains essays on subjects such as the invention of oil painting; Netherlandish music and musicians in the City of Doges; and commercial contacts and intellectual inspirations.

ISBN 0500019800   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780500019801 (What's this?)   Pages 704 Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd   Weight (grammes) 3740 Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd   Published in London Format Hardback   Height (mm) 297 Publication date 17 Jan 2000   Width (mm) 210 DEWEY 700.940902   Academic level General, Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly

Part 1 Essays: Venice and the low countries - commercial contacts and intellectual inspirations; Venice and Germany - commercial contacts and intellectual inspirations; Netherlandish music and musicians in the City of the Doges; the foreign experience - northern artists working in Venice and the Veneto; from Fazio to Van Mauder and Ridolfi - art theory and source; "the invention of oil painting"; north and south - painting techniques in the later 16th century; collectors of northern art in Renaissance Venice and the Veneto; the Fugger and other German patrons of Venetian art; the Venetian experience of artists working at the court of Rudolf II; northern artists in Renaissance Venice and the Veneto - a time table. Part 2 The catalogue: Antonello da Messina, Giovanni Bellini and northern painting; early crosscurrents - Germany and the Veneto; from hell to paradise - figure and landscape in the early 16th century; Titian and the north; landscape and genre in the later 16th century; Netherlandish printmakers in Venice; a Venetian fin de siecle.

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