Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575, 2nd Edition

I think that I am like many people in that my knowledge of the Renaissance Art of Northern Europe comes from a few lectures in a college art history survey course. A few iconic images from the likes of Bosch, Holbein,Durer and Breugel are all that come to mind. I knew the era was important but the details were sketchy."Northern Renaissace Art" is everything you could want to deepen your knowledge of this important period of history. The book is 750 pages long and has over 680 illustration of which 250 are in beautifully reproduced color. James Snyder does an excellent job of explaining why those iconic paintings that everyone knows are great and deserve to be remembered 500 years after they were painted. More importantly, Snyder takes those second tier masters out of obscurity and elevates them to their proper place in history. Before reading this book, I had never heard of such masters as Jan Gossaert, Jean Fouquet and Petrus Christus. It was a exciting to get know their work. By no means is "Northern Rensaissace Art" a reasonably priced book. But it is the type of book that will give you great pleasure for many years.

Updated since its first edition (’85?), well-written, concise yet detailed, with good quality color reproductions. This is certainly one of the best art hx texts I’ve ever read. I have an old copy of the original edition, and two copies of the second edition (the hardback for the desk, the paperback for the bathroom.)

Great supplemental reading to taking the course . Learned more from the book that wasn't mentioned very informative. Well written and easy to follow along with the different pieces of art that are mention on the pages.

Used it for my Northern Renaissance class in college, it opened up a marvelous world of artistic genius. Made me realize the influence of Northern Renaissance artists in the artistic production ever since.

Has lots of color illustrations and some black and white ones too. Paperback which made it a bit more lightweight .

The book was very good 😊

book was quite damaged when i received it, i didn’t expect it to be perfect since it’s a rental but i didn’t expect that either.using it for Art History 4310, it’ll keep me from failing that’s for sure!

I think because the book I've bought is paperback,pages are very thin and print of paintings is poor quality and illustrations are very small and there is not much details,also amount of good paintings of artists awfully deficient.Also most of the illustrations is black and white.But on the other hand there is a huge and deeply information about Northern Renaissance Art.

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