The Art of the Renaissance. Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, England

The books of St. Petersburg art historian Alexander Viktorovich Stepanov, dedicated to the art of the Renaissance, are invariably beloved by readers. Placing the works of the renowned masters of the Renaissance in a broad historical and cultural context, the author finds new, unexpected angles for each of them, allowing works that have been granted the status of canonical over many centuries to suddenly have a chance to be seen and reinterpreted anew. In the third book, dedicated to the art of the Renaissance, the author examines the work of masters from the main national art schools of Western Europe of the 15th-16th centuries — Jan van Eyck, Memling, Bosch, Bruegel, Dürer, Cranach, Stoss, Holbein, Guison, El Greco, Hilliard, and other great masters of the Renaissance. A.V. Stepanov's book possesses versatility in the best sense of the word: while the dynamic, captivating narrative will interest the broadest audience, the academic depth of the research places it alongside the works of the leading global experts in the field of Renaissance art.