Ebook: Late Gothic. The Birth of Modernity

Late Gothic: The Birth of Modernity – the title of the exhibition illustrates the momentous scope of artistic innovation in the period from ea. 1430 to 1500. Perhaps more than any other era, the late Gothic period in German-speaking Europe was marked by profound changes that affected in equal measure the form, content, technique, and dissemination of works of art. Inspired by developments in the Netherlands, light and shadow, as well as mass and space, were depicted with increasing realism in all forms of art. The invention of printing facilitated the rapid spread of these new modes of artistic expression throughout Europe, a development that ultimately caused images to be perceived more and more as autonomous works of art and enabled individual artists to achieve transregional fame.