{"product_id":"albrecht-durer-and-the-embodiment-of-genius-9780271085944","title":"Albrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAlbrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius \u003c\/i\u003erichly 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Joseph Leo Koerner,author of \u003ci\u003eDürer's Hands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Cordula Grewe,author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nazarenes: Romantic Avant-garde and the Art of the Concept\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Preludes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Self-Fashioning and the Early Cult of Albrecht Dürer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. The Alte Pinakothek in Munich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. The Alte Pinakothek’s Direct Heirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Dürer, Raphael, and Holbein in Early Civic and Princely Institutions: Frankfurt and Karlsruhe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Dürer and Germania in Berlin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. The Figured Fa.ade, or Dürer Accompanied\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Stairs to Immortality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Dürer, Emperor Maximilian I, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400809423191,"sku":"9780271085944","price":66.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271085944.jpg?v=1730471627","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/albrecht-durer-and-the-embodiment-of-genius-9780271085944","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}