European Art of the Fifteenth Century

by Stefano Zuffi

Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, still popular at the beginning of the century, was giving way to the influence of Early Netherlandish Flemish masters such as Jan van Eyck, who emphasized narrative and the complex use of light for symbolic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892368314
• ISBN13: 9780892368310
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.9"