Khan Academy: Jan Gossart: Conservation Discoveries

This video [9:29] Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting. Most often credited with successfully assimilating Italian Renaissance style into northern European art of the early sixteenth century, he is the pivotal Old Master who changed the course of Flemish art from the Medieval craft tradition of its founder, Jan van Eyck [c. 1380/90--1441], and charted new territory that eventually led to the great age of Peter Paul Rubens [1577-1640].