Widely acknowledged as one of the first landscape and genre painters in Italy, Jacopo Bassano (ca. 1510-1592) was highly regarded during his career for his brilliant treatment of light and color and for his innovative rural themes. Although he can be viewed as a pioneer pointing the way to the Dutch landscape painting of the seventeenth century, this Venetian painter is less known today than many of his contemporaries. In this book, Bernard Aikema uses a contextual approach to perform a much-needed iconological analysis of Bassano's painterly production. By tracing a remarkably consistent use of imagery grounded in a spiritual perspective, Aikema seeks to change our conception not only of the importance of Bassano's oeuvre, but also of the original function and development of genre and landscape painting in Northern Italy as compared to that in The Netherlands.
 Aikema argues that Bassano developed an imagery that expressed itself in an antithetical mode of representation--in which a good Christian way of life is contrasted with a materialistic concept of human conduct. The author challenges the common belief that Bassano switched to rural settings and genre painting late in life in order to satisfy art collectors' demands for "pastoral" and "low-life" subjects. Even in paintings where the religious scenes are hidden in the background or are lacking altogether, these works had a primarily spiritual function. Aikema shows how such paintings served as visual aids to the changing devotional needs in the second half of the cinquecento.

Jacopo Bassano and His Public

Arts & Photography

Aikema, Bernard

Individual Artists

Princeton University Press

Renaissance Venice and the North examines the interactions between Renaissance artists, musicians, and intellectuals in Venice and in northern Europe, and how the distinctive styles of each area had a lasting effect on the other. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, this catalogue contains the most recent scholarship on the dialogue between Venetian and northern artists that produced an abundance of art during the period.

Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Durer, Bellini, and Titian

Brown, Beverly Louise

History & Criticism

Rizzoli

Hieronymus Bosch & the Other Renaissance: How Monsters and Creatures Captured the Imaginations of the 16th Century and Beyond

Cremades, Fernando Checa

Cernunnos

Cranach

Dossier D'art

To accompany a major exhibition at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Amsterdam, 20 scholars and specialists on the early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch have been invited to contribute essays to this publication. Intended to cater to both a general interest readership and to art historians and researchers, the book places an emphasis on significant new scholarship, thus retaining its value amid diverse and evolving perceptions of Bosch and his work. Hieronymus Bosch was unique in creating works of symbolic fantasy using rich forms and colors in a way that makes him the ancestor, 500 years earlier, to the Surrealist painters of the early twentieth century. This volume will help make his work accessible to a wide range of readers, and will considerably advance the scholarship.

Hieronymus Bosch: New Insights into His Life & Work

Bosch, Hieronymus

Jansen, Hans

nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Catalogues the museum's collection of drawings, paintings, and etchings by the 18th-century Venetian artist and his colleagues. Paintings and drawings are each described, while etchings are merely listed. Includes b&w illustrations, and introductions to each section. No index. Distributed by University of Washington Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Tiepolo in Holland: Works by Giambattista Tiepolo and His Circle in Dutch Collections

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista

Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen

Tuijn, Marguerite

Univ of Washington Pr

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