Hardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Netherlandish role models, depictions of light and shadow, body and space, became increasingly more realistic. Everyday life found entry into the arts. With the invention of printing, images and texts were distributed to an extent previously unheard of. Artists such as Nicolaus Gerhaert and Martin Schongauer became widely known and influenced the devel...

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Monet makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation.

Considered a founding father of modern painting, Vincent van Gogh is also one of the most famed tragic figures in art history. This comprehensive introduction brings together a detailed account of the artist's life with a complete catalog of his 871 paintings.

Hoe schilderde Vermeer zijn iconische Meisje met de parel? Welke gedaanteverwisselingen onderging Suzanna en de ouderlingen van Rembrandt? Heeft de restauratie van de Sixtijnse Kapel ons dichter bij Michelangelo gebracht? En is het duurste schilderij ooit geveild nou wel of niet van Da Vinci? In Sluier van de tijd vertelt Benjamin Rous welke geheimen er schuilgaan onder het oppervlak van bekende en minder bekende kunstwerken.

De tijd versluiert wat we weten over kunstwerken. Hoe kunnen we di...

In Waarom een schilderij werkt onderzoekt Jurriaan Benschop de veelvormige schilderkunst van onze tijd. Hij introduceert het werk van tientallen schilders, bespreekt de thema’s die in het werk te vinden zijn en stelt daarbij steeds de vraag: waarom werkt dit schilderij? Dit brengt hem bij zowel zichtbare aspecten van schilderkunst, zoals beeldmotief en de manier van schilderen, als bij wat onzichtbaar achter het doek ligt: de drijfveren, het wereldbeeld en de culturele achtergrond van de ku...

The printed image was a revolutionary invention which deeply affected the visual arts. Woodcuts and engravings tended to be purely utilitarian at first, mainly serving devotional purposes, but in the last quarter of the fifteenth century artists began to appreciate the potential of the medium, which enabled them to reproduce and distribute their compositions rapidly and relatively cheaply. Especially after 1550, when production became professionalised with the appearance of the print publishe...

A distinguished black man kneels on a riverbank before a bearded white man in robes, with the air of a prophet. What could a depiction of this scene be other than the well-known story from chapter 8 of The Acts of the Apostles? No Dutch notary of the seventeenth century hesitated in identifying the subject of a painting with this motif as the baptism by Philip of an Ethiopian official called a moor, a eunuch or a chamberlain. On the road from Jerusalem to Gaza, he becomes convinced of the div...