Albrecht Durer and his legacy : the graphic work of a Renaissance artist / Giulia Bartrum ; with contributions by Günter Grass, Joseph L. Koerner, and Ute Kuhlemann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartrum, Giulia.

Contributor:

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528

Grass, Günter, 1927-2015

Koerner, Joseph Leo

Kuhlemann, Ute.

British Museum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528--Exhibitions.

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J, : Princeton University Press ; London : British Museum Press, a division of the British Museum Co., [2002]

Contents:

The collection of drawings and prints by Albrecht Dürer in the British Museum

Dürer viewed by his contemporaries / Giulia Bartrum

Albrecht Dürer: a sixteenth-century influenza / Joseph Koerner

The celebration of Dürer in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ute Kuhlemann

On stasis in progress: variations on Dürer's engraving Melencolia I / Günter Grass

Dürer and his image

Early years in Nuremberg: apprenticeship and travel, 1471-93

Dürer's first visit to Italy and the opening of his workshop, 1494-1500

Development of print techniques and second visit to Italy, 1500-1507

the Heller altarpiece and the Passion series of prints, 1507-12

The master printmaker in imperial service, 1512-19

Journey to the Netherlands and last works, 1520-28

Dürer's influence on his contemporaries

The impact of Dürer across Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

The Dürer renaissance, c.1570-c.1630

Dürer's Rhinoceros

Dürer and the Romantics: ideology and myth in the nineteenth century.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition displayed at the British Museum.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0691114935

9780691114934

OCLC:

51756427

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