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1.The Mirror of the Artist: The Art of the Northern Renaissance (Perspectives) by: Craig Harbison February 15, 1996
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Books about renaissance art tend to focus on Italian art. This book differs from the standard book in two ways: it's about Northern European art and it's perspective is on art in context. With this content this book is a valuable addition to any art history library, especially at it's low price considering the many colour reproductions. The timeline at the back of the book and the easy to follow text makes it useful as a beginners book for art history studies. Beware though that this is the exact same book as "The Art of the Northern Renaissance" (Everyman Art Library) all though with a different titel.

2.The Northern Renaissance (Art & Ideas) by: Jeffrey Chipps Smith 2004-05
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I have had to buy this book whilst studying for a degree in Art History but would highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in art and particularly in fourteenth to sixteenth century Netherlandish and German art. Beautifully illustrated and written in an easy to follow format. I will read this again and again just for its sheer beauty.

3.Van Der Weyden by: Lorne Campbell October 15, 2004
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I have had to buy this book whilst studying for a degree in Art History but would highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in art and particularly in fourteenth to sixteenth century Netherlandish and German art. Beautifully illustrated and written in an easy to follow format. I will read this again and again just for its sheer beauty.

4.Renaissance Art Reconsidered: An Anthology of Primary Sources from: WileyBlackwell December 22, 2006
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I have had to buy this book whilst studying for a degree in Art History but would highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in art and particularly in fourteenth to sixteenth century Netherlandish and German art. Beautifully illustrated and written in an easy to follow format. I will read this again and again just for its sheer beauty.

5.Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575 by: James Snyder, Larry Silver, Henry Luttikhuizen September 27, 2004
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Anyone wishing for an overview of Northern Renaissance Art would do well to start here. Almost every major figure is covered in readable, but scholarly, essays. It should serve as an excellent basic reference work from which to branch out into more specialised literature. Well illustrated and indexed. Some points of scholarship may have moved on since it was written (one or two attributions have been revised in recent years), but it remains an invaluable source book. D.R. Watson

6.Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford Paperbacks) by: Michael Baxandall May 19, 1988
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This is the kind of book that History of Art departments throw at you early on in their courses to instil the right respect and awe for the whole academic ritual. When I first saw this book at Birkbeck College (2003 History of Art MA) I was duly impressed and intimidated into thinking this was somehow a classic. In this work Baxandall is the exemplary academic, slowly building up a case from painstaking research and cleverly interpreted trivia. This approach is fine and dandy until you reflect that at the end of it the conclusions Baxandall has laboured so hard to arrive at are perhaps a little banal -- i.e. Renaissance painting was influenced by such contemporary phenomenon as religious practices, dancing, and the ... Read More:

7.Jan Van Eyck: The Play of Realism by: Craig Harbison October 02, 1995
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This is the kind of book that History of Art departments throw at you early on in their courses to instil the right respect and awe for the whole academic ritual. When I first saw this book at Birkbeck College (2003 History of Art MA) I was duly impressed and intimidated into thinking this was somehow a classic. In this work Baxandall is the exemplary academic, slowly building up a case from painstaking research and cleverly interpreted trivia. This approach is fine and dandy until you reflect that at the end of it the conclusions Baxandall has laboured so hard to arrive at are perhaps a little banal -- i.e. Renaissance painting was influenced by such contemporary phenomenon as religious practices, dancing, and the ... Read More:

8.The Secret Language of The Renaissance: Decoding the Hidden Symbolism of Italian Art by: Richard Stemp October 15, 2006
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This is the kind of book that History of Art departments throw at you early on in their courses to instil the right respect and awe for the whole academic ritual. When I first saw this book at Birkbeck College (2003 History of Art MA) I was duly impressed and intimidated into thinking this was somehow a classic. In this work Baxandall is the exemplary academic, slowly building up a case from painstaking research and cleverly interpreted trivia. This approach is fine and dandy until you reflect that at the end of it the conclusions Baxandall has laboured so hard to arrive at are perhaps a little banal -- i.e. Renaissance painting was influenced by such contemporary phenomenon as religious practices, dancing, and the ... Read More:

9.On Painting (Classics) by: Leon Alberti March 31, 2005
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This is effectively a textbook for Renaissance artists. It is split into three sections, the first dealing predominantly with issues of composition and perspective, the second with light and shade, colour and the artist's duty to his art and his public, and the third predominantly with what qualities one must bring to the job of being an artist. If you are only loosely interested in art as a pragmatic practice, and you don't have some mathematical knowledge which will steer you through the first section it may be rather impenetrable in places. I am one of these people and found myself really struggling with the first section. It is however fascinating as a glimpse into the mindset of a humanist scholar and as someone ... Read More:

10.The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics) by: Giorgio Vasari April 02, 1998
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This is a long, long book with a great deal of information. Clocking in at over five hundred pages and covering about thirty artists of the Italian Renaissance, it is fairly comprehensive and detailed. Some of Vasari's 'facts' have been discredited over the years and so the reader should not take everything here as gospel and indeed should be using this as a supplementary text with other material to get the best use out of it. Nevertheless it remains an important contemporary text and one of the first books on 'art history' ever produced. I have to admit that I found it extremely hard going. There are great long lists of works and their subjects and the patrons of artists which it is easy to get bored or confused by but ... Read More:

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