Van Eyck and the Founders of Early Netherlandish Painting

by Otto Pächt

Book Overview

In this volume, the author is concerned with one of the key problems in the history of western art: the comet-like appearance of a new kind of painting in Northern Europe at the end of the 14th century. Never losing sight of the visual evidence before him, Pacht examines the work of Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, the Master of Flemalle and their contemporaries in the context of a changing intellectual world, the passage from medieval thought to a perception...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1872501281
• ISBN13: 9781872501284
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Harvey Miller
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 11.0"