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“jeffrey chipps smith”

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  • Nuremberg, a Renaissance City, 1500–1618

    by Jeffrey Chipps Smith ...
    This illustrated study of Renaissance Nuremberg explores the city's social and artistic history through the sixteenth century and beyond.The German city of Nuremberg reached the height of its artistic brilliance during the Renaissance, becoming one of the foremost cultural centers in all of Europe by 1500. Nuremberg was the home of painter Albrecht Dürer, whose creative genius inspired generations ... Read more

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  • The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer

    by Erwin Panofsky ...
    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 ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Albrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius

    Decorating Museums in the Nineteenth Century

    by Jeffrey Chipps Smith ...
    During the nineteenth century, Albrecht Dürer’s art, piety, and personal character were held up as models to inspire contemporary artists and—it was hoped—to return Germany to international artistic eminence. In this book, Jeffrey Chipps Smith explores Dürer’s complex posthumous reception during the great century of museum building in Europe, with a particular focus on the artist’s role as a ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Caspar David Friedrich (Illustrated)

    by Caspar David Friedrich, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 30 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Widely regarded as the leading figure of the German Romantic movement, Caspar David Friedrich produced vast and mysterious landscapes and seascapes that explored the theme of human helplessness against the forces of nature, establishing the idea of the Sublime as a central concern of Romanticism. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to ... Read more

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  • Dürer

    by Klaus Carl ...
    Dürer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment, being well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; Dürer is even more celebrated for his engravings on wood and copper ... Read more

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  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    by Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning

    by Gunter Bandmann, Hans Böker ...
    Translated by Kendall Wallis ...
    At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines the occurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but as meaningful ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945

    by William Grange ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945 covers a wide swath of literary analysis and achievement, from Old High German lays and ecclesiastical encomia to Middle High German epics, sagas, and love lyrics. While extensive in its chronological dimension, the Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945 is equally comprehensive in the geographical and genre areas it covers.The history ... Read more

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  • Images of Change

    Visual Representations of Papal Power in Rome Following the Council of Trent

    by Teresa Delgado-Jermann ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Images of Change focuses on the visual propaganda employed by Catholic popes in Rome during the time of Tridentine Reform. In 1563, at the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church decided to reform its own use of imagery, in response to Protestant criticism. This volume examines how different sixteenth-century popes dealt with church reform by looking at the variety of artworks that were commissioned ... Read more

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  • Albrecht Durer

    A Guide to Research

    by Jane Campbell Hutchison ...
    Series series Artist Resource Manuals
    Hutchison's book is a complete guide on Durer and the research on his work, his historical import and his aesthetic legacy. ... Read more

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  • Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape

    Revised and Expanded Second Edition

    by Christopher S. Wood ...
    The first independent or ‘pure’ landscapes in Western art were produced in southern Germany in the first decades of the sixteenth century. They were painted, drawn and etched by Albrecht Altdorfer of Regensburg and his only slightly less flamboyant contemporary Wolf Huber of Passau. These radical experiments in landscape appeared without advance notice and disappeared from view almost as suddenly ... Read more

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