european art

Sister Wendy Beckett, an art authority who lives under the protection of a Carmelite monastery, offers her insights into great works of art from the past selected from the many she viewed during a tour of ten European cities.

A thematic account of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century art in Europe, exploring the impact of the concepts of national and supra-national identity upon the visual arts, and examining the debate over whether the art world was dominated by commissions and patrons, or consumerism.

Presents the art of Flanders, the Netherlands, France, and Germany in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with themes of the church and state, Protestant and Catholic, man and woman, artist and patron, and city life and court life.