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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Venice in the Renaissance was a cosmopolitan centre of arts trade and political power attracting the brightest and wealthiest talents in these spheres and exerting an overwhelming influence on other European centres of the time. Renaissance Venice and the North examines the flowering of mutual inspiration between Renaissance artists musicians and intellectuals in Venice and in northern Europe and reveals how both areas’ distinctive styles had a lasting effect on each other while maintaining their own cultural character. In scholarly essays and over 700 brilliant reproductions this book traces the early contacts between Germany the low countries and Venice; the experience of foreign artists working in the Veneto; the tastes of collectors and patrons in both northern and Venetian art; developments in landscape genre and figure painting; and the activities of the giants of the Venice Renaissance- Titian Bellini – and their northern counterparts notably D?rer. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice this catalogue contains the most recent scholarship on the crucial inspirational dialogue between Venetian and northern artists that produced such an abundance of brilliant forward- thinking art in the period. The size and scope of this volume are unsurpassed making it the most valuable illumination of Renaissance Venice. (OS)