Northern European Art in the Norton Simon Museum [Kietas viršelis]

"Northern European Art in the Norton Simon Museum celebrates the institution's holdings of Dutch, Flemish, Early Netherlandish, and German paintings from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. This volume illuminates ninety-five extraordinary paintings and works on paper across a range of genres, from portraiture and landscape to still life and religious themes. An introductory essay by Carol Togneri, former Chief Curator at the Norton Simon Museum, addresses Simon's ambition and foresight as a collector and recounts some of his most public and dramatic acquisitions. The catalogue's entries-authored by curator and provenance researcher Amy Walsh, with technical reports by conservator Rosamond Westmoreland and contributions from a number of specialists in the field-offer insights into the historical context, ownership trajectories, and conservation assessment of these objects"--

Celebrating the cultural significance and clarity of vision evident in Northern European art of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century


Celebrating the cultural significance and clarity of vision evident in Northern European art of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century
 
This book features Dutch, Flemish, Early Netherlandish, and German paintings and works on paper from the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, including preeminent names such as Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn, as well as lesser-known artists such as Sebastian Stoskopff and Johannes Verspronck. Illuminating one of the finest collections of Northern European art in the United States, the book traces the histories of ninety-five extraordinary paintings and drawings, shedding new light on the artistic significance and material properties of these objects. Works of art that emphasize the humanity of their subjects—and the capacity of oil paint to render these qualities almost achingly real—is a throughline that unites the paintings featured here, from the tender gaze of Rembrandt’s Portrait of a Boy (1655–60) to the freshly cut flowers and curious insects in Rachel Ruysch’s Nosegay on a Marble Plinth (ca. 1695), to the recently conserved masterpieces Adam and Eve (ca. 1530) by Lucas Cranach.
 
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