Main entry:

Hofstätter, Hans Hellmut, 1928- author.

Title & Author:

Art of the late Middle Ages / text by Hans H. Hofstätter.

Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams, [1968]
©1968

Description:

264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Translation of Spätes Mittelalter.
"Translated from the German by Robert Erich Wolf"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (page 253) and index.
The cathedrals of Île-de-France -- The churches of southern France -- The English cathedrals -- The high gothic in Germany -- Italy and the gothic style -- Spanish gothic -- The architecture of soldiers and crusaders -- Capitals and leaf masks -- The goldsmith's art -- Mysticism and devotional images -- Spiritual and worldly love -- The significance of Bohemia in the fourteenth century -- Special traits of German gothic architecture -- Italy between the gothic and the early renaissance -- Salvation and damnation as artistic themes -- Burgundy in the early fifteenth century -- Realism in the miniature -- The vanity of earthly life -- The influence of the miniaturist -- The nude -- The "soft style" of the international gothic -- Netherlandish realism -- Netherlandish influence in Germany and France -- The "hard style" of the mid-fifteenth century -- Images of the Virgin in the late fifteenth century -- Late gothic stained glass -- Woodcuts and engravings -- Late-medieval drawings -- Late-medieval wood carving -- A chronicle of the world -- The Manueline style in Portugal -- Portraits and self-portraits in late gothic sculpture -- Late gothic altarpieces -- Fantastic realism of the waning middle ages -- Late gothic expressionism -- The beginnings of the renaissance.
Also issued online.

Summary:

The final stage of medieval artistic development, first styled "Gothic" by contemptuous Renaissance critics who understood little of its motivation and cared even less, is a uniquely exciting period in the history of European art. Originating in the Île-de-France in the mid-twelfth century, the new style soon spread throughout Europe, reaching as far as Scandinavia, Spain, and the Levant, and was not finally overtaken by the Renaissance until late in the sixteenth century. The medieval world was a Christian world and its artistic genius was devoted almost exclusively to religious themes. Stained glass and frescoes, panel paintings and illuminated manuscripts, tapestries and jeweled reliquaries, sculptured tombs, carved and painted altarpieces, [are] reproduced here in all their splendor. Dr. Hofstätter has an intuitive feeling for the spirit of the Gothic age; and this volume, with its unprecedented pictorial coverage, is the ideal introduction to an understanding of Late Medieval art. -- From publisher's description.

Subject:

Art, Medieval.
Art médiéval.

Added entries:

Panorama of world art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 14859
Call No.: W10632
Status: Available