Petrus Christus - Maryan Wynn Ainsworth, Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
KORTE INHOUD
This study is an important new account of the life and work of the Flemish master Petrus Christus. It is the first volume to focus specifically on the physical characteristics of his works as criteria for judging attribution, dating, and the extent to which he was indebted to Jan van Eyck and other artists for the development of his technique and style. The author's aim is to examine how certain works were made in order to solve some rather traditional questions of connoisseurship. Recent technical and archival investigations, the results of which are published here together for the first time, form the basis of a sophisticated reassessment of Christus. His relationship with van Eyck's workshop is explored. There is a careful description of his working methods, including his use of underdrawings and his exploration of perspective. The results of dendrochronological analyses of many of his panels are also given. As important as this technical and art-historical evaluation is the social and biographical backgro...
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1994Uitgever: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York232 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0870996959ISBN-13: 9780870996955Koop dit boek tweedehands
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"Thank you Maryan Ainsworth for this wonderful comprehensive text on Petrus Christus, the "most minor of the major masters" of the Northern Renaissance. He is often overshadowed by Jan van Eyck, and this book allows Christus to shine in his own right".
"Thank you Maryan Ainsworth for this wonderful comprehensive text on Petrus Christus, the "most minor of the major masters" of the Northern Renaissance. He is often overshadowed by Jan van Eyck, and this book allows Christus to shine in his own right".
