Albrecht Dürer and the embodiment of genius : decorating museums in the nineteenth century / Jeffrey Chipps Smith.
| Author/creator |
Smith, Jeffrey Chipps, 1951- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020] |
| Copyright Notice | ©2020 |
| Description | xiv, 241 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Preludes -- Self-fashioning and the early cult of Albrecht Dürer -- The Alte Pinakothek in Munich -- The Alte Pinakothek's direct heirs -- Dürer, Raphael, and Holbein in early civic and princely institutions : Frankfurt and Karlsruhe -- Dürer and Germania in Berlin -- The figured façade, or Dürer accompanied -- Stairs to immortality -- Dürer, Emperor Maximilian I, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. |
| Abstract | "Explores 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2020020020 |
| ISBN | 9780271085944 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0271085940 (cloth) |
| Standard identifier# | 40030238228 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | N6888.D8 S648 2020 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |