reactions from Czech republik

Reactions from Czech republic

Date: 2-15-2001

In answer to your request, Breughel, Vesalius, Rubens, Van Eyck brothers, and Ensor are usually mentioned. In addition, there were some early Flemish painters like, "the Master of Flemal" that you did not mention. Was Robert Campin one of them; my memory does not serve. I remember his work if not his name. Renaissance Italian painters and those painters from the classical tradition in general, are always given a higher profile in most art history surveys, somewhat dismissing the incredible innovation and rich cultural flowering of the Northern Renaissance, as a lesser phenomenon. This is so because these artists were not rooted in the classical world; and of course, the rebirth of the classical world was at the center of things. A shame that the conventions of a traditional Art History outline somewhat obscure the valuable innovations in the north and do not as clearly acknowledged or understand them. I'd be interested in the results of your research.

Kate Reynolds