Description
Book SynopsisThe Essential Durer offers an accessible and up-to-date look at one of Germany's most famous artists. Essays explore his life as well as his art and its remarkable reception across Europe.
Trade Review"Provides a new and comprehensive introduction to Dürer's art, life, and times. Written throughout in a lucid yet scholarly style, it is deservedly destined to feature prominently on syllabi throughout the English-speaking world." *
Burlington Magazine *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
1 Dürer—Man, Media, and Myths
—Larry Silver
2 Dürer's Drawings
—Christiane Andersson and Larry Silver
3 Dürer and the High Art of Printmaking
—Charles Talbot
4. Dürer as Painter
—Katherine Crawford Luber
5 Dürer and Sculpture
—Jeffrey Chipps Smith
6 Dürer and Venice
—Andrew Morral
7 The Artist, His Horse, a Print, and Its Audience: Producing and Viewing the
—Ideal in Dürer's Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513)
—Pia F. Cuneo
8 Civic Courtship: Albrecht Dürer, the Saxon Duke, and the Emperor
—Larry Silver
9 Dürer and the Netherlands: Patterns of Exchange and Mutual Admiration
—Dagmar Eichberger
10 Agony in the Garden: Dürer's "Crisis of the Image"
—Donald A. McColl
11 Albrecht Dürer between Agnes Frey and Willibald Pirckheimer
—Corine Schleif
12 Impossible Distance: Past and Present in the Study of Dürer and Grünewald
—Keith Moxey
Notes
Short Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
