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Particularly insightful here are an extended discussion of the drawings’ techniques and an examination of the inventive means through which the artist altered the urban landscape to suit his pictorial goals. The focus of the discussion becomes more historically grounded in chapter 8, which is dedica...

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Published in:Renaissance quarterly 2021-07, Vol.74 (2), p.583-585
Main Author: Rebecchini, Guido
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antiquity
Art history
Artists
Historic artifacts
Language change
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Summary:Particularly insightful here are an extended discussion of the drawings’ techniques and an examination of the inventive means through which the artist altered the urban landscape to suit his pictorial goals. The focus of the discussion becomes more historically grounded in chapter 8, which is dedicated to the debate on the image and the eruption of iconoclastic outbursts in Flanders. [...]this is an important contribution to our understanding of a defining aspect of an artist who translated the Roman antiquarian landscape into an idiom that was meaningful to a wide Netherlandish audience, instigating a radical change in the local visual language.
ISSN:0034-4338
1935-0236
DOI:10.1017/rqx.2021.14