JAN GOSSART AND THE INVENTION OF NETHERLANDISH ANTIQUITY

This is the first in-depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 14781532), one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the Netherlandish artists life and art, Marisa Anne Bass shows how Go ssarts paintings were part of a larger cultural effort in the Netherlands to assert the regions ancient heritage as distinct from the antiquity and presumed cultural hegemony of Rome.Focusing on Gossarts vibrant, monumental mythological nudes, the book challeng es previous in...[Read more]