northern renaissance

Aug 01

Early Netherlandish drawings @ the British Museum

Simon

Go to the back of the British Museum, climb the stairs or take the lift to the top floor (level 4) to discover the heavy glass doors into galleries 90a and 90b. These are the print rooms, which host rotating exhibitions drawing on the British Museum’s vast collection of some 2 million print...

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Apr 22 2022

Van Eyck Brothers as “Just Judges”

Alberti's Window

Earlier this week I discovered a new(ish) Smarthistory video about Karel Van Mander, an early 17th-century biographer of painters who is sometimes referred to as the “Northern Vasari.” The video spends some time featuring a print which depicts the painter Jan Van Eyck. This portrait appeared in...

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