Renaissance & Reformation : German art in the age of Dürer and Cranach.

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Title:

Renaissance & Reformation : German art in the age of Dürer and Cranach.

Author:

Eissenhauer, Michael, writer of added commentary.

ISBN:

9783791355399

9783791366807

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm

General Note:

"A cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München."

Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach" held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 20, 2016-March 26, 2017.

Essays by Michael Eissenhauer, Dirk Syndram, Bernhard Maaz, Jeffrey Chipps Smith, and Julien Chapuis.

Source of cataloging data: WCP

Abstract:

Featuring more than a hundred outstanding paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and treasures of the Age of the Reformation, this publication comprises masterpieces by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Lucas Cranach the Younger, Hans Holbein the Elder and Hans Holbein the Younger, Matthias Grünewald, and Tilman Riemenschneider, among others. By placing these works in their historical context, this beautifully illustrated book uses art as a prism through which to consider the religious, social and political upheavals of the time. The volume includes insightful texts that discuss pivotal subjects such as traditional imagery and devotion, Reformation and polemics, court life and culture, humanism and reality, as well as portraiture and representation. Biographies of the artists, an extensive bibliography and a glossary of central terms concerning the German Reformation make this a comprehensive study of a fascinating period in European art history.

Subject Term:

Art, German -- 15th century -- Exhibitions.

Art, German -- 16th century -- Exhibitions.

Art, Renaissance -- Germany -- Exhibitions.

Reformation -- Germany -- Influence -- Exhibitions.

Added Author:

Eissenhauer, Michael,

Syndram, Dirk,

Maaz, Bernhard,

Smith, Jeffrey Chipps, 1951-

Chapuis, Julien

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Summary

On the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther s 95 Theses, this opulent book presents a colorful introduction to Renaissance art and history. aturing more than a hundred outstanding paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and treasures of the Age of the Reformation, this publication comprises masterpieces by Albrecht Du rer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Lucas Cranach the Younger, Hans Holbein the Elder and Hans Holbein the Younger, Matthias Gru newald, and Tilman Riemenschneider, among others. By placing these works in their historical context, this beautifully illustrated book uses art as a prism through which to consider the religious, social and political upheavals of the time. The volume includes insightful texts that discuss pivotal subjects such as traditional imagery and devotion, Reformation and polemics, court life and culture, humanism and reality, as well as portraiture and representation. Biographies of the artists, an extensive bibliography and a glossary of central terms concerning the German Reformation make this a comprehensive study of a fascinating period in European art history.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

Beautifully illustrated, this volume surveys art and artifacts from the tumultuous Reformation that are now housed in German museums. Though it is the catalogue of an exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Art, the volume barely strikes readers as such; it functions as an introduction to the period and it is not restricted by the boundaries of the exhibition. An overview of German 16th-century art by well-known scholar Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Univ. of Texas, Austin) is accompanied by brief essays and even briefer catalogue entries by German curators. Works on paper, small-scale sculptures, arms and armor, and decorative arts outnumber paintings, though Albrecht Dürer's Virgin Mary as Mother of Sorrows, from The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin and the object of an acid attack in 1988, is included. Cranach is better represented than Dürer, but the volume is best browsed for its quite fascinating oddities as well as its development of a sense of period. A glossary of the Reformation is included, along with artist's biographies but curiously no map. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates; general readers. --Patricia Emison, University of New Hampshire