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Book The Life and Art of Albrecht D  rer

Download or read book The Life and Art of Albrecht D rer written by Erwin Panofsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic text presents the life, times, and works of Albrecht Dürer. Through the skill and immense knowledge of Erwin Panofsky, the reader is dazzled not only by Dürer the artist but also Dürer in a wide array of other roles, including mathematician and scientific thinker. Originally published in 1943 in two volumes, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer met with such wide popular and scholarly acclaim that it led to three editions and then, in 1955, to the first one-volume edition. Without sacrifice of text or illustrations, the book was reduced to this single volume by the omission of the Handlist and Concordance. The new introduction by Jeffrey Chipps Smith reflects upon Panofsky the man, the tumultuous circumstances surrounding the creation of his masterful monograph, its innovative contents, and its early critical reception. Erwin Panofsky was one of the most important art historians of the twentieth century. Panofsky taught for many years at Hamburg University but was forced by the Nazis to leave Germany. He joined the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1935, where he spent the remainder of his career and wrote The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. He developed an iconographic approach to art and interpreted works through an analysis of symbolism, history, and social factors. This book, one of his most important, is a comprehensive study of painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), the greatest exponent of northern European Renaissance art. Although an important painter, Dürer was most renowned for his graphic works. Artists across Europe admired and copied his innovative and powerful prints, ranging from religious and mythological scenes to maps and exotic animals. The book covers Dürer's entire career in exacting detail. With multiple indexes and more than three hundred illustrations, it has served as an indispensable reference, remaining crucial to an understanding of the work of the great artist and printmaker. Subsequent Dürer studies have necessarily made reference to Panofsky's masterpiece. Panofsky's work continues to be admired for the author's immense erudition, subtlety of appreciation, technical knowledge, and profound analyses.

Book The Complete Engravings  Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht D  rer

Download or read book The Complete Engravings Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht D rer written by Albrecht Drer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1972-06-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of Dürer's works in three mediums are reproduced in this edition. Among them are his most famous works, Knight, Death and Devil; Melencolia I; and St. Jerome in His Study. Also included are portraits of his contemporaries, including Erasmus of Rotterdam and Frederick the Wise, as well as six engravings formerly attributed to Dürer.

Book The Life and Art of Albrecht D  rer

Download or read book The Life and Art of Albrecht D rer written by Erwin Panofsky and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous editions published under title: Albrecht Deurer.

Book Albrecht D  rer

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  • Author : Stacey Bieler
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2017-12-06
  • ISBN : 1498246109
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Albrecht D rer written by Stacey Bieler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artist and entrepreneur Albrecht Durer lived in Germany in the early 1500s, when two storms were threatening the Holy Roman Empire. First, Suleiman the Magnificent and his army of Ottoman Turks were expanding from Constantinople to Vienna, the doorstep of Europe. Second, Martin Luther, a German monk and professor, wrote his Ninety-Five Theses identifying corruption within the Roman Catholic Church. This challenged the authority of both Emperor Charles V and Pope Leo X, who responded by accusing Luther of heresy. Albrecht Durer influenced art and media throughout Europe as strongly as Martin Luther influenced people's views of life, death, and their relationship with God. Durer's art and writing reveal how this creative and thoughtful man responded to the changes offered by Luther. Why was Durer so attracted to Luther's writings? Why would he risk being accused of being a heretic? Both of these men inspired changes in art, religion, and politics that still underlie the foundation of today's social structures and Western culture.

Book Albrecht D  rer and the Epistolary Mode of Address

Download or read book Albrecht D rer and the Epistolary Mode of Address written by Shira Brisman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Dürer, Shira Brisman is the first to argue that the experience of writing, sending, and receiving letters shaped how he treated the work of art as an agent for communication. In the early modern period, before the establishment of a reliable postal system, letters faced risks of interception and delay. During the Reformation, the printing press threatened to expose intimate exchanges and blur the line between public and private life. Exploring the complex travel patterns of sixteenth-century missives, Brisman explains how these issues of sending and receiving informed Dürer’s artistic practices. His success, she contends, was due in large part to his development of pictorial strategies—an epistolary mode of address—marked by a direct, intimate appeal to the viewer, an appeal that also acknowledged the distance and delay that defers the message before it can reach its recipient. As images, often in the form of prints, coursed through an open market, and artists lost direct control over the sale and reception of their work, Germany’s chief printmaker navigated the new terrain by creating in his images a balance between legibility and concealment, intimacy and public address.

Book The Life and Art of Albrecht D  rer

Download or read book The Life and Art of Albrecht D rer written by Erwin Panofsky and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Albrecht D  rer  The life and art of Albrecht D  rer

Download or read book Albrecht D rer The life and art of Albrecht D rer written by Erwin Panofsky and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reframing Albrecht D rer

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  • Author : Andrea Bubenik
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351551809
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Reframing Albrecht D rer written by Andrea Bubenik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the ways his art and persona were valued and criticized by writers, collectors, and artists subsequent to his death, this book examines the reception of the works of Albrecht D?rer. Andrea Bubenik's analysis highlights the intensive and international interest in D?rer's art and personality, and his developing role as a paragon in art historiography, in conjunction with the proliferation of portraits after his likeness. The author traces carefully how D?rer's paintings, prints, drawings and theoretical writings traveled widely, and were appropriated into new contexts and charged with different meanings. Drawing on inventories and correspondences and taking collecting practices into account, Bubenik establishes who owned what by D?rer in the 16th and 17th centuries, and characterizes the key locations where interest in D?rer peaked (especially the courts of Maximilian I in Munich, and Rudolf II in Prague). Bubenik treats the emergent artistic appropriations of D?rer-borrowings from or transformations of his originals-in conjunction with contemporary sources on art theory. The volume includes illustrations of numerous imitative works after D?rer. As well as being the first book to fully address the early reception of the most important of German Renaissance artists, Reframing Albrecht D?rer shows how appropriation is a crucial concept for understanding artistic practice during the early modern period.

Book Albert and the Whale

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  • Author : Philip Hoare
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-05-04
  • ISBN : 1643137271
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Albert and the Whale written by Philip Hoare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of The Whale. In 1520, Albrecht Dürer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. A central figure of the Renaissance, no one had painted or drawn the world like him. Dürer drew hares and rhinoceroses in the way he painted saints and madonnas. The wing of a bird or the wing of an angel; a spider crab or a bursting star like the augury of a black hole, in Dürer's art, they were part of a connected world. Everything had meaning. But now he was in crisis. He had lost his patron, the Holy Roman Emperor. He was moorless and filled with wanderlust. In the shape of the whale, he saw his final ambition. Dürer was the first artist to truly employ the power of reproduction. He reinvented the way people looked at, and understood, art. He painted signs and wonders; comets, devils, horses, nudes, dogs, and blades of grass so accurately that even today they seem hyper-real, utterly modern images. Most startling and most modern of all, he painted himself, at every stage of his life. But his art captured more than the physical world, he also captured states of mind. Albert and the Whale explores the work of this remarkable man through a personal lens. Drawing on Philip’s experience of the natural world, and of the elements that shape our contemporary lives, from suburbia to the wide open sea, Philip will enter Dürer's time machine. Seeking his own Leviathan, Hoare help us better understand the interplay between art and our world in this sublimely seductive book.

Book Artist of the Reformation

Download or read book Artist of the Reformation written by Joyce McPherson and published by Greenleaf Press (TN). This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Albrecht Durer, one of the most influential artists of the Renaissance and Reformation. In addition to creating hundreds of engravings, woodcuts, drawings, and paintings, he wrote books on geometry, fortification, and human proportions. He explored the meaning of beauty in his art textbook, which was called Food for Young Artists. The Christian worldview which he brought to the field of art is still relevant today. Durer was counted among the leading intellectuals of the sixteenth century. He witnessed the coming Reformation and made the acquaintance of men such as Erasmus, Martin Luther, Melanchthon, and the Emperor Maximilian. Though he created works of art for wealthy patrons, he made his woodcuts affordable for ordinary people. In this way, Durer brought the Bible to a wide audience through his brilliant illustrations of the book of Revelation and other themes. This biography includes over twenty illustrations by Albrecht Durer, who wrote: "Painting is a useful art when it is of a godly sort and employed for holy edification." The life and art of Durer is food not only for young artists, but for all who seek beauty and truth. This book is written on a 5th-6th grade reading level, but younger children will enjoy having it read aloud to them."

Book Albrecht D  rer

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  • Author : Christof Metzger
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2020-02-04
  • ISBN : 3791359312
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Albrecht D rer written by Christof Metzger and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the drawings of Albrecht Dürer, one of the most prominent Renaissance artists, known as an incomparable painter and draughtsman with a keen eye for the natural world. During his lifetime, Dürer found tremendous success as a painter and printmaker, taking commissions from prominent figures such as Frederick the Wise and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. His drawings and studies reveal his interest in human proportions, anatomy, and perspective. Featured in this book are Dürer's drawings from the Albertina Museum's preeminent collection including family portraits, studies of animals and plants, and studies of the human body. This book showcases more than 100 of Dürer's drawings including Hare, Self Portrait at the Age of 13, and Melencolia I, along with paintings and prints. Featuring scholarly essays and beautifully reproduced works, this book shows the reader not only how important Dürer's drawings are to his own oeuvre, but also how he helped drawing become an appreciated medium in its own right.

Book The life and art of Albrecht Durer

Download or read book The life and art of Albrecht Durer written by Erwin Panofsky and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Albrecht D  rer

Download or read book The Art of Albrecht D rer written by Heinrich Wölfflin and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drawings of Albrecht D  rer

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  • Author : Heinrich Wölfflin
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2013-01-17
  • ISBN : 0486140903
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Drawings of Albrecht D rer written by Heinrich Wölfflin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty-one plates show development from youth to full style. Many favorites, many are new. Introduction by Alfred Werner. "The fascination of the drawings is inexhaustible; the skill incredible; the upshot — delight." — Boston Globe.

Book The Essential Durer

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  • Author : Larry Silver
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0812221788
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book The Essential Durer written by Larry Silver and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Dürer offers an accessible and up-to-date look at one of Germany's most famous artists. Essays explore his life as well as his art and its remarkable reception across Europe.

Book Albrecht D  rer and the Venetian Renaissance

Download or read book Albrecht D rer and the Venetian Renaissance written by Katherine Crawford Luber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Durer

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  • Author : Albrecht Dürer
  • Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Durer written by Albrecht Dürer and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the life of the artist and his works - Analyses the masterpieces - Explains the social and historical context of his paintings and his response to the challenges of the Italian Renaissance.