Adoration of the Shepherds, out of From Flanders to Florence.
Perhaps the most wondrous moment in the pictorial culture of the
fifteenth-century Renaissance was when Italian artists discovered the
work of the Flemish: the Van Eycks, Rogier van der Weyden, and Hans
Memling. Amazing, poignant investigations of the relationships of
humankind to nature, the body in space, and our position in the universe
ensued from the fusion. This is Domenico Ghirlandaio's Adoration of
the Shepherds, out of From Flanders to Florence, by Paula Nuttall,
London: Yale University Press, 2004, [pounds sterling]40--a magisterial
review of the fifteenth-century visual revolution.
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