Product Description: Otto Pacht, one of the most significant art-historians of the 'Vienna School', and well known for his analyses of Early Netherlandish art, turns his attention in this publication to the humanist circle of Early Renaissance painters in Venice, dominated by Jacopo Bellini, his sons Gentile and Giovanni, and also his son-in-law Andrea Mantegna...read more

Product Description: The late 14th and early 15th centuries saw a new style of painting emerging in Northern Europe, the proponents of which included the Van Eyck brothers and the Master Flemalle. Otto Pacht presents his thoughts and observations on these artists and their contemporaries, and on the intellectual and artistic climate of the time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the English version of Otto Pacht's classic text on art history. His approach to art history is shaped by his conviction that visual art, like music, can express ideas in its own medium that no other can. He aims to sharpen the reader's perceptions by recreating the social and cultural context in which an object was made, clarifying unfamiliar notions of space and time or significant gestures and symbols which are no longer recognizable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Otto Pacht examines the great Netherlandish painters of the 15th and early 16th century by putting emphasis on formal analysis and on direct contact with the works of art themselves, and by discussing every facet of the works including style, mood, iconography, symbolism and construction of space...read more

Product Description: An introduction to one of the most significant art-forms of the Middle Ages.