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The Practice of Art History
This is a classic essay on how to approach the subject of art history. Pächt aims to sharpen perceptions by recreating the social and cultural context in which an art object was made.
Van Eyck
An examination of the work of Jan and Hubert van Eyck and their contemporaries.
Early Netherlandish Painting
This volume follows on from Pacht's work on the Van Eycks and their circle, to encompass the great artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Figures such as Van Der Weyden, Bouts, Christus, Van Der Goes and Memling, as well as lesser known artists, are examined in turn. With detailed discussion of particular paintings, style and symbolism.
Venetian Painting in the 15th Century
Otto Pacht, one of the most significant art-historians of the 'Vienna School', and well known for his analyses of Early Netherlandish art, turns his attention in this publication to the humanist circle of Early Renaissance painters in Venice, dominated by Jacopo Bellini, his sons Gentile and Giovanni, and also his son-in-law Andrea Mantegna. It was a period of newly awakened interest in the Antique, of studies made directly from nature, and of trial and error in the technique of perspective. And in addition, a new awareness of the role of light and colour in the devotional and often monumental images of the Madonna, of altarpieces and of allegories contributed to the founding of what we now ...
Book Illumination in the Middle Ages
Written by a world-renowned authority on the subject, this lavishly illustrated introduction to book illumination--one of the most significant art forms of the Middle Ages--is a unique account of facts and ideas gathered during a lifetime of teaching and research.
The New Vienna School of Art History
An account of the theory and practice of practitioners of the so-called "second" or "younger" Viennese school, associated with Hans Sedlmayr and Otto Pächt, demonstrating the strong dependence of these writers on the work of Gestalt psychology.
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