Late Gothic: The Birth of Modernity – the title of the exhibition illustrates the momentous scope of artistic innovation in the period from ea. 1430 to 1500. Perhaps more than any other era, the late Gothic period in German-speaking Europe was marked by profound changes that affected in equal measure the form, content, technique, and dissemination of works of art. Inspired by developments in the Netherlands, light and shadow, as well as mass and space, were depicted with increasing realism in all forms of art. The invention of printing facilitated the rapid spread of these new modes of artistic expression throughout Europe, a development that ultimately caused images to be perceived more and more as autonomous works of art and enabled individual artists to achieve transregional fame.
Author(s): Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (editor), Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (editor)
Series: Alte Kunst
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 375
Tags: Medieval art, German art, Exhibition,
Frontispiece
Table of contents
Foreword
Introduction: On images and their use
Paths to the museum. The musealization of medieval art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Era of innovations. Painting in the generation of Konrad Witz and Stefan Lochner
The origins of printmaking: Multiplication of images
Stylistic variants in the middle of the fifteenth century
Gutenberg and imagery: Revolution in the book arts
A European pictorial language. The visual arts after 1450 and the model of Rogier van der Weyden
Interplay of artistic media
Secular decorative arts in the Late Gothic period
Space, color, and light. The art of the second half of the fifteenth century
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