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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Romanism

 

a school of 16th-century Netherlandish art. Representatives of the movement included the following painters and engravers: Jan Gossaert (the founder of romanism), Barnaert van Orley, Maerten van Heemskerck, Jan van Scorel, Frans Floris, and Lucas van Leyden.

Influenced by the art of the Italian Renaissance, the roman-ists used subjects (classical mythology, nudes) and renderings of anatomy and perspective that were new to Netherlandish art. They strengthened humanist tendencies in art but, unable to combine Italian Renaissance and Old Dutch traditions organically, often succumbed to eclecticism.

REFERENCES

Fekhner, E. lu. Niderlandskaia zhivopis: XVI v. Leningrad, 1949.
Vipper, B. R. Stanovlenie realizma ν gollandskoi zhivopisi XVII veka. Moscow, 1957.
Puyvelde, L. van. La Peinture flamande au siècle de Bosch et Breughel. Paris, 1962.
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