ART HISTORY THREAD

>>2457914
Any good introductory reading material on art history friend?

My favourite movement is Art Nouveau

>>2457934
>Any good introductory reading material on art history friend?

Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History. Can be pretty pricey though.

>>2457914

I like Holbein's Thomas More. It reminds me of Raphael's Pope Julius II.

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>>2457914
The german stuff was faux-holocaust with its starving bodies and starkness of emotion

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>>2457947
You know those germans, they sure do like their schadenfreude.

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>>2457914

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Matthias Grünewald!

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Really like a lot of Renaissance works, particularly more Northern and Early. Saw some really good sculpture at the NGV recently.

This is c. 1470, but is German and in timber, has a bit of an older look IMO, a moderately stylised one that really grabs me.

>"During the Reformation, Catholic countries still commissioned religious works, but Protestant patrons preferred secular themes, such as portraiture, classical mythology, and the macabre, including death and witchcraft"

uh, what? I though protestants hated witchcraft. Why are they ordering paintings of witches? When does the hate of witchcraft begin?

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>>2458233
>that
>good

Nordcucks can't into sculptures

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>>2457914
>favorite painting from the Northern Renaissance

>>2458382
Shouldn't you be in one of the other threads arguing vaguely for the existence of objective standards in art (that just happen to align with your personal tastes)?