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Article: The Northern Renaissance: a new survey of north European art in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is admirably ambitious in scope, but ducks some fundamental issues.(Book Review)
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PHAIDON
The Northern Renaissance Jeffrey Chipps Smith Phaidon, 14.95 [pounds sterling]
ISBN 0 7148 3867 5
Jeffrey Chipps Smith's The Northern Renaissance is the latest addition to Phaidon's keenly priced Art & Ideas range. The series plan inside the book's cover reveals that in due course it will be joined by two other volumes dealing with same period. Given that these companion texts, The Early Renaissance and The High Renaissance, presumably will be devoted to Italian art, it is a brave author who accepts the challenge of summarising more than two centuries of art produced north of the Alps in one modest volume. Nevertheless Smith rises to ...