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Painting and sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands : 1500-1600

This volume deals with a period of art which, arguably, has been neglected in England. It deals with well-known artists such as Holbein, Durer and Bruegel, as well as other lesser-known painters and sculptors of Germany and the Netherlands, including Altdorfer and Baldung.
Print Book, English, 1969
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, UK, 1969
History
403 pages : illustrations.
9780300053111, 0300053118
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Part 1 The age of Maximilain I - Late gothic, classicism, and proto-Baroque: the reign of Maximilian I, 1493-1519; sculpture in Nuremberg and Franconia - Veit Stoss, Tilman Riemenschneider, Adam Kraft and Peter Vischer and his sons; sculpture on the middle and upper Rhine and in Switzerland; sculpture in Swabia and at Augsburg; sculpture in Bavaria and Austria; sculpture in upper Saxony, Thuringia, and north Germany; sculpture on the lower Rhine and in the Netherlands - the lower Rhine, the southern Netherlands, the northern Netherlands; painting in Nuremberg and Franconia - Veit Stoss, Albrecht Durer, Durer's earliest successors in Franconia; painting on the middle and upper Rhine and in Switzerland - Mathis "Grunewald", Hans Baldung Grien, minor painters, the younger Holbein generation, and Manuel; painting in Swabia and at Augsburg - Hans Holbein the Elder, Hans Burgkmair the Elder, other Augsburg masters; painting in Bavaria and Austria - Albrecht Altdorfer, minor painters, Wolfgang Huber; painting in upper Saxony, Thuringia, and north Germany - Lucas Cranach the Elder, other painters; painting on the lower Rhine and in the Netherlands - the southern Netherlands - Bruges and Ghent, Brussels and Malines, Antwerp - Quentin Massys, Joos van Cleve, Joachim Patinir, the first "Antwerp Mannerists", Jan Gossaert; the northern Netherlands - Hieronymus Bosch, Jan Mostaert and other Haarlem painters, Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden. Part 2 The early years of Charles V - late gothic and post-classic mannerism: the reign of Charles V - the first 25 years, 1519-1545; painting in the Netherlands and on the lower Rhine - Lucas van Leiden, other Leiden painters, Jan van Scorel, Marten van Heemskerck, Marinus van Roymerswaele, Jan Gossaert, Joos van Cleve, the "Antwerp Mannerists", Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Bernart van Orley, Malines and Bruges; painting in north Germany, upper Saxony, and Thuringia - Lucas Cranach the Elder, Georg Lemberger; painting in Austria and Bavaria - Albrecht Altdorfer, Wolf Huber, other painters; painting at Augsburg and in Swabia; painting in Switzerland and on the upper and middle Rhine - Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Holbein the Younger, the middle Rhine; painting at Nuremberg and in Franconia; sculpture in the Netherlands and on the lower Rhine; sculpture in north Germany, upper Saxony, Thuringia, Austria, Baravia, Augsburg, Swabia, Switzerland, upper Rhine, Franconia, Nuremberg. Part 3 the end of the age of Charles V and Ferdinand I and the early years of Philp II, 1546-1565/7 - academic mannerism: sculpture in the Netherlands and Germany; painting in the Netherlands (history painting, portrait and genre painting, landscape and architectural painting) and Germany. Part 4 The age of Philip II, Maximillian II and Rudolf II, 1564/7-1598: sculpture and painting in the Netherlands and Germany.