European Art of the Fifteenth Century

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Stefano Zuffi Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century European artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, still popular at the beginning of the century, began to yield to the influence of Early Netherlandish Flemish masters such as Jan van Eyck, who emphasized narrative and the complex use of light for symbolic meaning. Patrons favored paintings in…