![]() ![]() Painted in the Netherlands for a Florentine chapel, the altarpiece also reflects artistic exchange in the Fifteenth Century. Focusing on Hugo?s masterpiece, the Portinari Altarpiece, Koster pictures the painter, his patron, and the wider public as a set of diverse forces fuelling this artist?s achievements. This book identifies the artist?s painterly procedures as well as the religious practices and hopes his painting served. Hugely original, he exerted a massive influence, pushing the portrayal of volume, motion and light to its limits while exploring an inherited Christian iconography in profoundly new ways. Hugo van der Goes is a towering figure in the history of art. Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH 49). ![]() Hardback, original editor's jacket, english, IV+178 pp., 42 b/w ill. ![]()
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