Jan Gossart - Conservation Discoveries

Name: Jan Gossart - Conservation Discoveries
Uploaded: 2014-07-25
Duration: 9 min 30 s
Channel: Khan Academy
Description: Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting. Most often credited with successfully assimilating Italian Renaissance style int

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Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting. Most often credited with successfully assimilating Italian Renaissance style into northern European art of the early sixteenth century, he is the pivotal Old Master who changed the course of Flemish art from the Medieval craft tradition of its founder, Jan van Eyck (c. 1380/90--1441), and charted new territory that eventually led to the great age of Peter Paul Rubens (1577--1640). Read more about Jan Gossart and his circle on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.