The Art Institute of Chicago, 2008
Available to booksellers from Yale University Press.
This magisterial volume, the result of many years of research, documents the Art Institute of Chicago’s significant––and, surprisingly, relatively unknown––collection of English, French, German, Netherlandish, and Spanish paintings created before 1600. Nearly 100 altarpieces, private devotional works, portraits, and landscapes by such masters as Lucas Cranach, Gerard David, El Greco, Jan Gossaert, and Rogier van der Weyden receive their first in-depth analysis.
With its accessible entries and beautiful illustrations, this publication reflects the most up-to-date scholarship. New conservation investigations, including the study of under-drawing and of wood supports, illuminate many issues surrounding these paintings.
Edited by Martha Wolff
Essays by Martha Wolff, Susan Frances Jones, Richard G. Mann, and Judith Berg Sobré
With contributions by Ilse Hecht, Peter Klein, Cynthia Kuniej Berry, and Larry Silver
476 pages, 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.
233 duotone and 123 color ills.
Hardcover $100.00
ISBN: 978-0-300-11944-2
