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Item Number: 116883
Title: Perspectives on the Painting Technique of JAN VAN EYCK : Beyond the Ghent Altarpiece
Author: Streeton, Noelle
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781904982708
Description: London: Archetype, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 206pp., 105 color illus. Contents: Chapter 1 Van Eyck and technical scholarship - Van Eyck the innovator - Early technical scholarship - Technical Studies in the Field of Fine Arts - The Ghent Altarpiece - Materials research and the art historian ; Chapter 2 Van Eyck and the tradition of oil painting - The materials of northern European painters: research since the 1950s - Pigments and paint systems - Describing painted surfaces - Past and present: rethinking the literary tradition of oil painting ; Chapter 3 The Ghent Altarpiece: rethinking the paradigm - Making the masterpiece - Early reception - Claiming van Eyck - Post-war initiatives - Benchmark? - From the specific to the general: the roots of misconception - L'Agneau mystique au laboratoire - 'La technique picturale eyckienne' - Setting the standard - Three Marys at the Tomb ; Chapter 4 Van Eyck and colour - Observing differences: Crucifixion and Last Judgement - Van Eyck's uses of blue - Copper green and the landscape tradition - The Virgin in red - The importance of lead white ; Chapter 5 Where from here? Building a context for van Eyck's workshop - Bruges and the North Sea economy - Scholarship on late medieval Bruges - The Hanseatic League and Baltic oak - From the Mediterranean by sea - Merchant fleets - Staple monopolies and Bruges - Merchant bankers and credit - Economic contraction and bullion famines - Depression and artistic production - Shortages of gold and silver ; Chapter 6 Impediments to merchants. Impediments to craftsmen? - Merchants and the Anglo-Burgundian alliance - The Peace of Arras and its consequences - Massacre, embargo, siege and revolt - Flux? - Consequences for van Eyck? - Resolution ; Chapter 7 Problems and strategies for a technical history for the paintings of van Eyck - Technical art history - Collaboration - Framework - Strategies ; Conclusions ; Summary of technical findings ; A context for painting in Bruges ; Appendix I Paintings under investigation ; Appendix II Technical examination and access ; Appendix III Cross-sections and reconstructions ; Appendix IV Glossary of analytical techniques ; Bibliography ; Primary sources: paintings and dossiers ; Manuscripts ; Printed original sources ; Secondary sources ; Index.
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