In this volume, the medieval scholar Otto Pacht is concerned with one of the key-problems in the history of Western art: the comet-like appearance of a new kind of painting in Northern Europe at the end of the 14th- and the first half of the 15th-century. The leading artists of this phenomenon were the Master of Flemalle and the Brothers Van Eyck, and the most outstanding work produced was the famous Ghent Altarpiece, that has puzzled scholars to this day. It is a topic that occupied Pacht throughout his long career, and ...
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In this volume, the medieval scholar Otto Pacht is concerned with one of the key-problems in the history of Western art: the comet-like appearance of a new kind of painting in Northern Europe at the end of the 14th- and the first half of the 15th-century. The leading artists of this phenomenon were the Master of Flemalle and the Brothers Van Eyck, and the most outstanding work produced was the famous Ghent Altarpiece, that has puzzled scholars to this day. It is a topic that occupied Pacht throughout his long career, and the present book is based on a series of lectures given at the University of Vienna in the 1960s and early 70s. The period produced not only a new manner of painting, he writes, but also a new conception of the painted image... a new sense of beauty, freed from all ideological constrictions based on metaphysical values and religious ideals, rather a sense of beauty found directly in the surrounding visible world.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., no flaws or wear. clean. no markings. no bumps, tears, creases. strong binding.; translated from german original.; 223pp., 28 color plates, including gatefold of ghent altarpiece.126 b/w illustrations. focuses on jan van eyck, hubert van eyck, the master of flemalle/robert campin problem, with extensive section on the ghent altarpiece.
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VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn; interior is clean; binding is solid. ) in VG-(Lightly edgeworn, scuffed, smudged. ) jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and design; 223 pp.; richly illustrated. "In this volume, the great medieval scholar Otto Pacht is concerned with one of the key problems in the history of western art: the comet-like appearance of a new kind of painting in Northern Europe at the end of the 14th century and the first half of the 15th century. The leading artists of this phenomenon were the Master of Flemalle and the Brothers Van Eyck, and the most outstanding work produced was the famous Ghent Altarpiece; it has puzzled scholars to this day. It is a topic that occupied Pacht throughout his long career, and the present book is based on a series of lectures given at the University of Vienna in the 1960s and early 70s." "In this first English translation of the acclaimed German edition, Pacht examines the work of Jan and Hubert Van Eyck and their contemporaries in the context of a changing intellectual world-the transition from medieval thought to a perception that recognizes and embraces all facets of visible reality." "The illustrations, in colour and monochrome, cover not only the major work of the Brothers Van Eyck and the Master of Flemalle, but also many comparative works. A special attraction is the folding plate, in colour, of the entire Ghent Altarpiece."--Jacket.
