" Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437–1444. Originally standing some six yards high, double-sided, with a splendid gilt frame over the main altar of the local Franciscan church, it was the Rolls Royce of early Renaissance painting. But its myriad figures and scenes tempted the collectors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ..."
"Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the leading artist of the German Romantic Movement, provides the focus for this fascinating book, which contextualises the artist's work in relation to his German predecessors, contemporaries and followers while also examining the important role which Russian collectors played in the development of this naturalistic genre. Inhospitable, ancient and timeless landscapes characterise Friedrich's haunting ..."
"Venezia! Art of the 18th Century presents the finest works from the magnificent collections of eighteenth-century Venetian art in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Sixty-five paintings, prints and drawings by artists such as Canaletto, Longhi, Guardi and Tiepolo are complemented by superb examples of famous Venetian glass. In the eighteenth century, Venice experienced one last golden age in its already rich cultural history, ..."
"This handsome book presents an overview of Netherlandish art from 1400 to 1600 by focusing on one hundred works of art, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and decorative arts, from the unparalleled collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Eminent art authorities place these works in the context of their fascinating period in history and discuss their origins, significance, and distinguishing features.This is the f ..."
"With examples of European devotional art from the two centuries before the Reformation, the veil is drawn on the prayer and meditation 'exercises' once practised by the clergy and high-placed laity."
" One of the mainsprings of the revolution in art that took place throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages was the growth and development of individual piety or "private devotion." The movement began among monks, in the cloister, but soon spread to the castle and to patrician houses in the rich cities as clergy and laity alike sought to achieve personal salvation, often using beauty as an aid to achieve "nearness" to the divinity. In ..."
"Professor van Os has spent twenty years working on Tuscan painting, and his contributions to the study of the Sienese school are of great importance. This volume brings together for the first time his articles on Tuscan art in the period leading up to the Renaissance in Florence and Siena. They represent one of the most important individual approaches to the subject in recent decades. A number of the studies reprinted here have been spe ..."
Vecchietta and the Sacristy of the Siena Hospital Church a study in Renaissance religious symbolism by HenkVanOs 100 Pages, Published 1974 by 'S-Gravenhage : Staatsuitgeverij For The Ministerie Van Cultuur, Recreatie En Maatschappelijk Werk, ISBN-13: 978-0-8390-0139-3, ISBN: 0-8390-0139-8
St Francis for Protestants by HenkVanOs Hardcover, 20 Pages, Published 2018 by Amsterdam University Press ISBN-13: 978-94-6298-502-5, ISBN: 94-6298-502-2
"Lorenzo Monaco's striking fifteenth-century portrayal of the stigmatisation of St. Francis was once owned by the art collector Otto Lanz. What prompted Lanz to buy Monaco's painting in the 1920s? Was it simply because he saw it as a beautiful, unique work of art? Or was there something more—could Lanz have been drawn in by the mystical experience that the painting depicts? In this essay, Henk van Os attempts to uncover the motivation fo ..."
"Beschrijving van leven en werk van de Duitse expressionistische schilder."
Kijk nou eens(1st Edition) (Dutch Edition) by HenkVanOs Paperback, Published 2012 by Balans, Uitgeverij ISBN-13: 978-94-6003-565-4, ISBN: 94-6003-565-5
Vader en zoon krijgen de geest brieven over de drang tot godsdienst by HenkVanOs Paperback, Published 2012 by Balans, Uitgeverij ISBN-13: 978-94-6003-404-6, ISBN: 94-6003-404-7
Kijk nou eens by HenkVanOs Published 2011 by Balans ISBN-13: 978-94-6003-324-7, ISBN: 94-6003-324-5
Zien is genoeg by HenkVanOs Published 2009 by Uitgeverij Balans ISBN-13: 978-94-6003-085-7, ISBN: 94-6003-085-8
"Welnu, Rudi is van nature een canonieke denker. Canon is voor hem zo ... In het
volgende hoofdstuk 'Verhoudingen' bekeert Fuchs zich in een reeks essays op
een heel eigen manier tot de traditie van het modernisme. Daarin is het artikel '
Over ... Van Karel Appel naar Rob Birza, van Luciano Fabro naar Dennis Hopper."