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Chapters: Roman Catholic Church Painters, Roman Catholic Church Paintings, Michelangelo, Raphael, Jan Van Eyck, the Last Supper, Sandro Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Caravaggio, El Greco, Benvenuto Cellini, Titian, Basilica of San Francesco D'assisi, Peter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, Black Madonna, Santiago Martínez Delgado, Geertgen Tot Sint Jans, Filippo Lippi, Matthias Grünewald, Retablo, Westminster Retable, Brancacci Chapel, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Cappella Paolina, the Last Judgment, Niccoline Chapel, Gregorio Vasquez de Arce Y Ceballos, Franz Ittenbach, Francisco Ribalta, Jaume Busquets, Sopo Archangels, Master of Saint Francis. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 254. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: El Greco (1541 April 7, 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" (The Greek) was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, (Doménikos Theotokópoulos). El Greco was born in Crete, which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, and the centre of Post-Byzantine art. He trained and became a master within that tradition before travelling at age 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done. In 1570 he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance. In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo, El Greco received several major commissions and produced his best known paintings. El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century. El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=140639 ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Jan van Eyck, Giorgio Vasari, Antoine Pesne, Hans Holbein der Jüngere, Josef Arpád Koppay, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Godfrey Kneller, Johann Kaspar Sing, Johann Baptist Kirner, Johann Dietrich Findorff, Johann Joseph Langenhöffel, Jean-Laurent Mosnier, Paul Schneider, Franz Schrotzberg, François Dumont, Christoph Schwartz, Pierre Gobert, Jacob van Schuppen, Jacques Bellange, Vicente Carducho, Michael Dahl, Viktor Wilhelm Peter Heideloff, Paul Honegger, Berthold Dominik Lippay, Christian Schröder, Johann George von Hamilton, Jaques de Littemont, Alexei Petrowitsch Antropow, Johann Heinrich Suhrlandt, Hofschutz, Balthasar August Albrecht, Johann Adolph Pöppelmann,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Jan van Eyck (* um 1390 in Maaseik; † 1441 in Brügge) war ein flämischer Maler des Spätmittelalters und gilt als der berühmteste Vertreter der altniederländischen Malerei. Er leitete die neue naturalistische Kunstepoche nördlich der Alpen ein. Wegen seiner vollendeten Technik und seines Sinns für Naturalismus wurde er von vielen Autoren sogar als „König unter den Malern" bezeichnet. Jan van Eyck wurde um 1390 in Maaseik, einer Kleinstadt 25 km nördlich von Maastricht geboren. Seine Jugend liegt trotz intensiver Forschungsarbeit im Dunkeln. Zwar wird die Quellenlage ab 1422 besser, doch über seine Werke bleibt das Wissen lückenhaft. Hier kommt erschwerend hinzu, dass ein großer Teil seiner Arbeit nicht mehr erhalten ist. Bei wem van Eyck in die Lehre ging, ist unbekannt, genauso, welchen Beruf er ausübte. Wahrscheinlich begann er als Buchmaler (Illuminator). Seine erste urkundliche Erwähnung datiert von 1422 und in dieser Zeit trat er auch in den Dienst d...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=11285 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Arnolfini Portrait, Annunciation (Van Eyck, Washington), Ghent Altarpiece, Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, Portrait of a Man, Lucca Madonna, the Just Judges, Ince Hall Madonna. Excerpt:The Annunciation is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish master Jan van Eyck , from around 1434-1436. It is in the National Gallery of Art , in Washington D.C. It was originally on panel but has been transferred to canvas. It is thought that it was the left (inner) wing of a tryptych ; there has been no sighting of the other wings since before 1817. It is a highly complex work, whose iconography is still debated by art historians. The picture depicts the Annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she will bear the son of God (Luke 1:26-38). The inscription shows his words: "AVE GRÃ. PLENA" or "Hail, full of grace...". She modestly draws back and responds, "ECCE ANCILLA DÑI." or "Behold the handmaiden of the Lord". Her words are painted upside down for God above to see. The Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit descend to her on seven rays of light from the upper window to the left, with the dove symbolising the Holy Spirit following the same path. "This is the moment God's plan for salvation is set in motion. Through Christ's human incarnation the old era of the Law is transformed into a new era of Grace ". The Temple The setting develops this theme. Mary was believed in the Middle Ages to have been a very studious girl who was engaged by the Temple of Jerusalem with other selected maidens to spin new curtains for the Holy of Holies . The book she is reading here is too large to be a lady's Book of Hours ; as in other paintings she is engaged in serious study in a part of the Temple (one medieval authority specified that she was reading the Book of Isaiah when Gabriel arrived). Th... ... Read more

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Great book featuring Northern Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck's painting called the Arnolfini Wedding portrait. 95 black and white illustrations of the Arnolfini portrait, details of the work and related documents, illustrations of other works by van Eyck and other artists of the period, illustrated Medieval illuminated manuscripts. Includes notes and bibliography.Softcover. 308 pages. Measures 8 by 10 inches. Interesting book, nicely illustrated. ... Read more