Description
Book SynopsisExplores the complex posthumous reception of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) as the embodiment of Germany’s past artistic greatness and its current cultural aspirations and as a creative and moral examplar for contemporary artists and museum visitors.
Trade Review“Albrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius richly explores the great museums and their decorative programs. Never has this chapter in the fascinating history of Old Master adulation been explored as thoroughly as here.”
—Joseph Leo Koerner,author of Dürer's Hands
“While Renaissance studies have taken the international importance of Albrecht Dürer as a given for a long time, his role for the nineteenth-century imagination has remained mostly a German affair. Smith’s wide-ranging study will change this. Written in vivid, easily accessible prose, the book presents the reader with a rich picture of Dürer’s omnipresence in the museum age across the globe.”
—Cordula Grewe,author of The Nazarenes: Romantic Avant-garde and the Art of the Concept
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. Preludes
2. Self-Fashioning and the Early Cult of Albrecht Dürer
3. The Alte Pinakothek in Munich
4. The Alte Pinakothek’s Direct Heirs
5. Dürer, Raphael, and Holbein in Early Civic and Princely Institutions: Frankfurt and Karlsruhe
6. Dürer and Germania in Berlin
7. The Figured Fa.ade, or Dürer Accompanied
8. Stairs to Immortality
9. Dürer, Emperor Maximilian I, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
