Jan Gossart and the invention of Netherlandish antiquity
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Jan Gossart and the invention of Netherlandish antiquity
Princeton University Press, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-202) and index
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This is the first in-depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the Netherlandish artist's life and art, Marisa Anne Bass shows how Gossart's paintings were part of a larger cultural effort in the Netherlands to assert the region's ancient heritage as distinct from the antiquity and presumed cultural hegemony of Rome. Focusing on Gossart's vibrant, monumental mythological nudes, the book challenges previous interpretations by arguing that Gossart and his patrons did not slavishly imitate Italian Renaissance models but instead sought to contest the idea that the Roman past gave the Italians a monopoly on antiquity. Drawing on many previously unused primary sources in Latin, Dutch, and French, Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity offers a fascinating new understanding of both the painter and the history of northern European art at large.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Embodied Past 7 Chapter 2 Land 45 Chapter 3 Lineage 75 Chapter 4 Legacy 115 Epilogue 145 Notes 155 Bibliography 183 Index 203 Illustration Credits 213
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