Michel Sittow
Subtitle: Estonian painter at the courts of Renaissance Europe
By: John Oliver Hand and Greta Koppel ; with Till-Holger Borchert [and three others]
Contributors: Koppel, Greta, 1978- author; Borchert, Till, author; Eesti Kunstimuuseum (1989-  ); National Gallery of Art (U.S.). Publishing Office; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Yale University Press
Publisher: National Gallery of Art; Art Museum of Estonia; in association with Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780300232868
Subjects: Renaissance Portrait painting; Painters; Exhibitions; Renaissance Panel painting; Netherlandish Panel painting; Netherlandish Art; Biography
Description: Michel Sittow (c. 1469-1525) was the greatest Estonian artist of the Renaissance. As his renown as a portraitist spread among the royal courts of Europe in the late fifteenth century, Sittow led the life of the itinerant artist, leaving his native Reval, the Hanseatic port city known today as Tallinn, to reside at courts in Spain, The Netherlands, and Denmark. Michel Sittow : Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe is the first monographic exhibit of this masterful artist's oeuvre. The 144-page catalog with 90 illustrations features rare paintings by Sittow and other art works by his contemporaries, along with insightful essays by leading European and American scholars including John Oliver Hand of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Greta Koppel of the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn.--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn. Exhibition dates, National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 28-May 13, 2018; Art Museum of Estonia-Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, June 8-September 16, 2018"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lenders to the exhibition --; title: The riddle of Michel Sittow's art  -- Greta Koppel; title: The itinerant court artist : Van Eyck to Rubens  -- John Oliver Hand; title: The city of Tallinn (Reval) in the Late Middle Ages and Renaiisance  -- Anu Mänd; title: Michel Sittow : an artist's career between the Hanseatic City of Tallinn and the princely courts of Europe -- Matthias Weniger.