Cultural Exchange between the Low Countries and Italy (1400-1600)

Contents:

Preface - Diane Wolfthal, Florentine Bankers, Flemish Friars, and the Patronage of the Portinari Altarpiece – Michael Rohlmann, The Annunciation by Joos Ammann in Genoa: Context, Function and Metapictorial Quality – Creighton Gilbert, Piero and Bouts – Francis Ames-Lewis, Sources and Documents for the Use of the Oil Medium in Fifteenth-Century Italian Painting – Maria Clelia Galassi, Aspects of Antonello da Messina’s Technique and Working Method in the 1470s: Between Italian and Flemish Tradition – Colin Eisler, Flying Pictorial Carpets - Tapestries’ Transalpine Agendas – Ingrid D. Rowland, Agostino Chigi’s Flemish Connection – Elizabeth Ross, Mainz at the Crossroads of Utrecht and Venice: Erhard Reuwich and the Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (1486) – Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, Northern Realism and Carthusian Devotion: Bergognone’s Christ Carrying the Cross for the Certosa of Pavia – Marina Belozerskaya, Critical Mass: Importing Luxury Industries Across the Alps – Barbara G. Lane, Memling’s Impact on the Early Raphael – Laura D. Gelfand, Regional Styles and Political Ambitions: Margaret of Austria’s Monastic Foundation at Brou – Yona Pinson, Moralized Triumphal Chariots - Metamorphosis of Petrarch’s Trionfi in Northern Art (c. 1530- c. 1560) – Frits Scholten, Spiriti veramente divini: Sculptors from the Low Countries in Italy, 1500-1600 – Nello Forti Grazzini, Brussels Tapestries for Italian Customers: Cardinal Montalto’s Landscape with Animals Made by Jan II Raes and Catherine van den Eynde – Bibliography - Colour Plates