Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575

I think that I am like many people in that my knowledge of the Renaissance Art of Northern Europe comes from a few lectures in a college art history survey course. A few iconic images from the likes of Bosch, Holbein,Durer and Breugel are all that come to mind. I knew the era was important but the details were sketchy. "Northern Renaissace Art" is everything you could want to deepen your knowledge of this important period... Read Full Review

Books on the Renaissance can be quite confusing to non-specialists. For example, Shakespeare classes in English schools discuss him as a Renaissance writer. Yet art teachers describe his near contemporary, Rubens, as the quintessential Baroque artist! So exactly what does Northern Renaissance Art cover? Is it an age that can be separated, marked out and surveyed by political or religious activities? And by northern what... Read Full Review

I am using this book as a text in school and I am quite impressed. I bought this book (hardcover) for half the price of the paper back version sold at my school. The text in interesting, not dry. The images are good reproductions. The only thing that I don't admire about the book is that some of the images are printed in black and white.

The book truly is superb in both commentary and the reproductions of the paintings accompanying the text. It is stunningly beautiful and truly captures the feeling and depth of the Renaissance in northern Europe.