Webmuseum Paris La Renaissance The Netherlands

Features information on the Renaissance in The Netherlands. Discusses some of the artists of this period, including Jan van Eyck, the Master of Flemalle, Rogier van der Weyden, and Hugo van der Goes. Provides access to biographical sketches of each artist and discusses their influences.

Features information about the European Renaissance. Notes that the Renaissance describes the radical and comprehensive changes that took place in European culture during the 15th and 16th centuries, bringing about the demise of the Middle Ages. Examines the Renaissance in Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, and France. Details the Renaissance as an historical period and discusses philosophy, science, social thought, and the influence of the Renaissance.

Provides information on the Renaissance in Germany. Notes that German art of the 15th century was largely based on the Gothic International style and received important influences from the Netherlands. Discusses Albrecht Durer, Giovanni Bellini, Matthias Grunewald, and other Renaissance painters.

Use the Internet to teach visual arts and refine students' critical thinking skills! This book is based on the Discipline-Based Art Education program, a proven art instruction program that teaches everything from the creative process and art history to criticism and aesthetics. An abundance of primary source Web sites and background information is offered. The main focus of the book is western art history and painting, but examples of sculpture, drawings, prints, and architecture are included, along with a chapter on diversity. Part I provides background material. A brief history of art education is presented, followed by a review of the components of design elements and principles. The book describes using the Internet as a primary source by identifying and evaluating websites. Part II follows the program through the main historical periods, from prehistoric and ancient Middle Eastern art, through the Renaissance, through the 20th century. A bibliography and index are included.

Contains a collection of images of paintings by Dutch painter and etcher Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669) that he created before the year 1639. Includes "The Music Party" (1626), "A Scholar" (1631), "The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" (1632), "Descent from the Cross" (1634), and "The Archangel Leaving the Family of Tobias" (1637).

Presents information on Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden (circa 1399-1464). Features images, titles, and descriptions of some of his works. Includes a biography and notes that his portraits, usually serene and aristocratic, were much imitated, influencing Netherlands art until the end of the 15th century.

The Art of Being Human, 6/e, introduces students to the ways in which the humanities can broaden their perspective, enhance their ability to think clearly and objectively, and enrich their lives. This well-respected text has been lauded for its scope of topics, its accessible level, and its writing style. Chapter topics include not only the usual genres-art, music, literature, cinema, and philosophy-but also myth, love, happiness, death attitudes and life affirmation, and nature.

This richly documented study of copyright in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome provides valuable new information about the "privilegio" and the printers, engravers, painters, mapmakers, and others who used it to protect their commercial interests in various types of printed images.

A rich account of the giant bronze doors created by Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti--so exquisite that Michelangelo proclaimed them suitable to serve as the Gates of Paradise.