Description:
Examines the genres and conventions that made Netherlandish sculpture a vital and influential medium during the sixteenth century.
Brief description: Ethan Matt Kavaler is Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies and Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Pieter Bruegel: Parables of Order and Enterprise and Renaissance Gothic: Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe, 1470-1540.
Review Quotes:
"Ethan Matt Kavaler opens our eyes to the richness and complexity of the sculpture produced in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century. Iconoclasm later in the century destroyed major monuments in the Netherlands, and foreign demand resulted in many others landing far from the Low Countries. Kavaler has made it impossible to overlook these works any longer."
--Kristoffer Neville, author of The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550-1720