15TH CENTURY PAINTINGS

Παρουσίαση

What is Christ doing beside Lake Geneva? How did the Florentine banker Tommaso Portinari find his way into an altarpiece by the Flemish artist Hugo van der Goes? Who is the beautiful woman lying dead on the sand and why are there dogs around her? What was Botticelli really trying to say with his celebration of the birth of Venus? (...) The masterpieces selected for this volume are intended not to teach art history, but to focus our attention in each case on a specific image. The authors discuss what we are seeing and provide background information which makes the picture more accessible. They see each painting not just as a work of art, but as a document of its day. The articles were originally published under the title «What Great Paintings Say» in the magazine art.
(ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)

Περιεχόμενα

A garden enclosed is my spouse
A deceptive idyll
An Italian in Bruges
Monument to a military leader
A saint with a practical turn of mind
May God help the Chancellor
What is Christ doing beside Lake Geneva?
A Christian artisan advertises his craft
A family sings its own praises
The splendours of a small dynasty
An empire collapses; the painter retreats
Hocus pocus, Inquisition and demons
The patrons watch over the city
How the nymph became a goddess
A cart trundles towards damnation
Fairest daughter of heaven and waves
The merchants of Venice
A message from the world of alchemy