Background
Wolff, Martha Anne Wood was born on November 4, 1949 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Daughter of Hugh Wood and Lucia (Ragghianti) Wolff. came to the United States, 1950.
(The complexity and variety of sixteenth-century Netherlan...)
The complexity and variety of sixteenth-century Netherlandish art endow it with a particular dynamism. It was in the sixteenth century that drawing attained an independent status as an art in itself, distinct from painting; landscape increasingly became a separate genre; and artists consciously referred to the great masters of the past, showing the tremendous influence of Italian art in their own works. This volume documents the unique qualities of the art of drawing during the age of Bruegel. Designed to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art and The Pierpont Morgan Library, the book is also an invaluable scholarly record. In addition to 123 catalogue entries and more than 350 reproductions of rarely-seen drawings, three in-depth essays contain discussions of the art of the period. Its development is traced from a late medieval style at the end of the fifteenth century to the influence of the Italian Renaissance and mannerism in the 1500s, and ultimately to the beginning of the baroque period in the early 1600s. The detailed entries encompass works by sixty-two artists, including Hieronymus Bosch, Jan Gossaert, Lucas van Leyden, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Karel van Mander, and others. The book will interest specialists and also general readers attracted by the warmth of Netherlandish art.
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( Masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting such as Ja...)
Masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting such as Jan van Eyck's Annunciation, Rogier van der Weyden's Saint George and the Dragon, and Gerard David's Rest on the Flight into Egypt--among the greatest examples of northern Renaissance panel painting in North America--are included in this volume. The social, economic, and religious contexts of the paintings are explored, and questions of attribution and iconography are addressed.
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Wolff, Martha Anne Wood was born on November 4, 1949 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Daughter of Hugh Wood and Lucia (Ragghianti) Wolff. came to the United States, 1950.
Bachelor, Radcliffe College, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1979.
Curatorial assistant, Metropolitan Museum Art, New York City, 1977-1979; assistant curator, National Gallery Art, Washington, 1979-1983; curator northern renaissance painting, National Gallery Art, Washington, 1983-1986; curator European painting before 1750, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, since 1986.
( Masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting such as Ja...)
(The complexity and variety of sixteenth-century Netherlan...)
Married David Theodore Van Zanten, July 18, 1987. 1 child, Nicholas; 1 stepchild, Clara.