Dürer S Fight Book

Author : Dierk Hagedorn,Daniel Jaquet
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784387044

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Dürer's Fight Book by Dierk Hagedorn,Daniel Jaquet Pdf

Albrecht Dürer is probably the most famous German artist of the Renaissance, if not of all time. His works are world-famous and he was a master in numerous artistic disciplines such as woodcut, copperplate engraving, drawing and painting. What is less well known is that he was interested in weapons and fencing throughout his life. He produced several woodcuts for a tournament book by Emperor Maximilian I, but he devoted himself much more thoroughly to the subject of duels in his own extensive fencing manuscript. Dürer’s fight book stands out from the mass of illustrated fencing manuscripts because of its outstanding quality. In well over 100 elaborate drawings, the master uniquely depicts dynamic pairs of fighters practising contemporary combat techniques, such as wrestling or sword and dagger fighting. Since its creation more than 500 years ago, the fight book has never been published in its entirety. This edition offers the complete contents of the manuscript for the very first time: All illustrations are reproduced in color and the complete text is presented in a letter-perfect transcription as well as a translation into modern English. Albrecht Dürer's fight book offers a unique, new look at Dürer the artist and Dürer the fighter.

Author : Dierk Hagedorn,Daniel Jaquet
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784387068

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Dürer's Fight Book by Dierk Hagedorn,Daniel Jaquet Pdf

Albrecht Dürer is probably the most famous German artist of the Renaissance, if not of all time. His works are world-famous and he was a master in numerous artistic disciplines such as woodcut, copperplate engraving, drawing and painting. What is less well known is that he was interested in weapons and fencing throughout his life. He produced several woodcuts for a tournament book by Emperor Maximilian I, but he devoted himself much more thoroughly to the subject of duels in his own extensive fencing manuscript. Dürer’s fight book stands out from the mass of illustrated fencing manuscripts because of its outstanding quality. In well over 100 elaborate drawings, the master uniquely depicts dynamic pairs of fighters practising contemporary combat techniques, such as wrestling or sword and dagger fighting. Since its creation more than 500 years ago, the fight book has never been published in its entirety. This edition offers the complete contents of the manuscript for the very first time: All illustrations are reproduced in color and the complete text is presented in a letter-perfect transcription as well as a translation into modern English. Albrecht Dürer's fight book offers a unique, new look at Dürer the artist and Dürer the fighter.

Author : Mitchell B. Merback
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781942130000

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Perfection's Therapy by Mitchell B. Merback Pdf

A deft reinterpretation of the most zealously interpreted picture in the Western canon as a therapeutic artifact. Albrecht Dürer's famous portrayal of creative effort in paralysis, the unsurpassed masterpiece of copperplate engraving titled Melencolia I, has stood for centuries as a pictorial summa of knowledge about the melancholic temperament, a dense allegory of the limits of earthbound arts and sciences and the impossibility of attaining perfection. Dubbed the “image of images” for being the most zealously interpreted picture in the Western canon, Melencolia I also presides over the origins of modern iconology, art history's own science of meaning. Yet we are left with a clutter of mutually contradictory theories, a historiographic ruin that confirms the mood of its object. In Perfection's Therapy, Mitchell Merback reopens the case file and argues for a hidden intentionality in Melencolia's opacity, its structural “chaos,” and its resistance to allegorical closure. That intentionality, he argues, points toward a fascinating possibility never before considered: that Dürer's masterpiece is not only an arresting diagnosis of melancholic distress, but an innovative instrument for its undoing. Merback deftly resituates Dürer's image within the long history of the therapeutic artifact. Placing Dürer's therapeutic project in dialogue with that of humanism's founder, Francesco Petrarch, Merback also unearths Dürer's ambition to act as a physician of the soul. Celebrated as the "Apelles of the black line" in his own day, and ever since as Germany's first Renaissance painter-theorist, the Dürer we encounter here is also the first modern Christian artist, addressing himself to the distress of souls, including his own. Melencolia thus emerges as a key reference point in a venture of spiritual-ethical therapy, a work designed to exercise the mind, restore the body's equilibrium, and help in getting on with the undertaking of perfection.

Author : Albrecht Dürer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Artists
ISBN : WISC:89054186705

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Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries by Albrecht Dürer Pdf

Author : Albrecht Dürer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Drawing
ISBN : UOM:39015017054274

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The Painter's Manual by Albrecht Dürer Pdf

Author : Wolfgang M. Freitag
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824033264

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Art Books by Wolfgang M. Freitag Pdf

Expanded to twice as many entries as the 1985 edition, and updated with new publications, new editions of previous entries, titles missed the first time around, more of the artists' own writings, and monographs that deal with significant aspects or portions of an artist's work though not all of it. The listing is alphabetical by artist, and the index by author. The works cited include analytical and critical, biographical, and enumerative; their formats range from books and catalogues raisonnes to exhibition and auction sale catalogues. A selection of biographical dictionaries containing information on artists is arranged by country. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:C2643730

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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum by British Museum. Department of Printed Books Pdf

Author : Erwin Panofsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691257495

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The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer by Erwin Panofsky Pdf

This classic text presents the life, times, and works of Albrecht Dürer. Through the skill and immense knowledge of Erwin Panofsky, the reader is dazzled not only by Dürer the artist but also Dürer in a wide array of other roles, including mathematician and scientific thinker. Originally published in 1943 in two volumes, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer met with such wide popular and scholarly acclaim that it led to three editions and then, in 1955, to the first one-volume edition. Without sacrifice of text or illustrations, the book was reduced to this single volume by the omission of the Handlist and Concordance. The new introduction by Jeffrey Chipps Smith reflects upon Panofsky the man, the tumultuous circumstances surrounding the creation of his masterful monograph, its innovative contents, and its early critical reception. Erwin Panofsky was one of the most important art historians of the twentieth century. Panofsky taught for many years at Hamburg University but was forced by the Nazis to leave Germany. He joined the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1935, where he spent the remainder of his career and wrote The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. He developed an iconographic approach to art and interpreted works through an analysis of symbolism, history, and social factors. This book, one of his most important, is a comprehensive study of painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), the greatest exponent of northern European Renaissance art. Although an important painter, Dürer was most renowned for his graphic works. Artists across Europe admired and copied his innovative and powerful prints, ranging from religious and mythological scenes to maps and exotic animals. The book covers Dürer's entire career in exacting detail. With multiple indexes and more than three hundred illustrations, it has served as an indispensable reference, remaining crucial to an understanding of the work of the great artist and printmaker. Subsequent Dürer studies have necessarily made reference to Panofsky's masterpiece. Panofsky's work continues to be admired for the author's immense erudition, subtlety of appreciation, technical knowledge, and profound analyses.

Author : Mrs. Charles Heaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Painters
ISBN : BL:A0018134230

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The History of the Life of Albrecht Dürer of Nürnberg by Mrs. Charles Heaton Pdf

Author : Andrew Robison,Klaus Albrecht Schröder
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3791352873

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Albrecht Dürer by Andrew Robison,Klaus Albrecht Schröder Pdf

Issued in connection with an exhibition held March 24-June 9, 2013, National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Author : Christopher D. Fletcher,Walter S. Melion
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004680562

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Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700 by Christopher D. Fletcher,Walter S. Melion Pdf

Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400‒1700 examines the form, function, and meaning of alterations made by users to the physical structure of their book, through insertion or interpolation, subtraction or deletion, adjustments in the ordering of folios or quires, amendments of image or text. Although our primary interest is in printed books and print series bound like books, we also consider selected manuscripts since meaningful alterations made to incunabula and early printed books often followed the patterns such changes took in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century codices. Throughout Customised Books the emphasis falls on the hermeneutic functions of the modifications made by makers and users to their manuscripts and books. Contributors: B. Boler Hunter, T. Cummins, A. Dlabačova, K.A.E. Enenkel, C.D. Fletcher, P.F. Gehl, P. Germano Leal, J. Kiliańczyk-Zięba, J. Koguciuk, A. van Leerdam, S. Leitch, S. McKeown, W.S. Melion, K. Michael, S. Midanik, B. Purkaple, J. Rosenholtz-Witt, B.L. Rothstein, M.R. Wade, and G. Warnar.

Author : ohne Autor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783846048313

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The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art by ohne Autor Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.

Author : Lionel Cust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Artists
ISBN : NYPL:33433066260443

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Albrecht Dürer by Lionel Cust Pdf

Author : Lionel Cust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:FL4Y82

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The Engravings of Albrecht Dürer by Lionel Cust Pdf

Author : John Berger,Albrecht Dürer
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 3822885754

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Albrecht Dürer by John Berger,Albrecht Dürer Pdf

Documents the works of this Medieval artist.