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Jan Gossaert's Renaissance
Opens: 23/02/2011 Closes: 30/05/2011
National Gallery, London
Jan Gossaert was a key figure in the Northern Renaissance, transforming the traditions of Flemish art and laying the foundations for such future greats as Peter Paul Reubens. The first major exhibition of his work in over 45 years centres on depictions of historical and mythological subjects.
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The Scotsman“Earthquakes followed...” Principally through the work of Jan Gossaert, it explores the way Northern artists absorbed the lessons of their Italian contemporaries at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The High Renaissance meets the Northern Renaissance...
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Guardian“A true Renaissance man...” This show is a cabinet of curiosities. Gossaert is almost Warholian in his fascination with surface, a rich observer of the physical world who hesitates to go beyond. Even his portraits are sensual studies of faces...
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The Telegraph“Full of pictures that should appeal to the British public...” I love shows about artists I knew little about. First seen at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, this is full of pictures that should appeal to the British public, if only they can be persuaded to overcome the Italo-centric view of art history...
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The Arts Desk“Intelligently displayed and carefully curated...” This is exactly the kind of show our national, as well as National, Gallery should be showing. Intelligently displayed, carefully curated, it sure-footedly explores the complexity of European art at the beginning of the sixteenth century...
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