Books by Michael Baxandall
“What Baxandall does is to reconstruct the world of the Northern Renaissance artists, the market for their work, how artists were paid and how they were organised into guilds, and who the patrons were.” Read more...
The best books on Northern Renaissance
Christopher S. Wood, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
“What Baxandall argues, in his book, is that a work of art is like an archaeological object. You need to excavate everything that surrounds it.” Read more...
The best books on The Renaissance
Jerry Brotton, Historian
Interviews where books by Michael Baxandall were recommended
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
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Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
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The Reformation
by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The best books on The Renaissance, recommended by Jerry Brotton
The best books on The Renaissance, recommended by Jerry Brotton
A century-and-a-half ago the Swiss art historian, Jacob Burckhardt, popularized the idea of a ‘Renaissance’ in 14th century Italy. For most people, the term still conjures up works of art by the likes of Michelangelo or Leonardo. But there is much, much more to it than that. Professor of Renaissance studies, Jerry Brotton, picks the best books to read for a more complete understanding of the Renaissance.
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The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany
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The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550
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The Art of Arts
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Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life
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Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
by Christopher P. Heuer
The best books on Northern Renaissance, recommended by Christopher S. Wood
The best books on Northern Renaissance, recommended by Christopher S. Wood
The Renaissance had quite distinct manifestations in Northern Europe and Italy: if the Southern Renaissance was all about abundance and positivity, the dominant theme of the Northern Renaissance was negativity, says New York University Professor Christopher S. Wood. He recommends what to read to learn more about the Northern Renaissance, from Bosch’s fantasy bestiary of the demonic and the grotesque, to Bruegel’s comic and badly proportioned peasants.
