Main entry:

Bartrum, Giulia.

Title & Author:

Albrecht Durer and his legacy : the graphic work of a Renaissance artist / Giulia Bartrum ; with contributions by Günter Grass, Joseph L. Koerner, and Ute Kuhlemann.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press ; London : British Museum Press, a division of the British Museum Co., ©2002.

Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition displayed at the British Museum.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The collection of drawings and prints by Albrecht Dürer in the British Museum -- Dürer viewed by his contemporaries / Giulia Bartrum -- Albrecht Dürer : a sixteenth-century influenza / Joseph Koerner -- The celebration of Dürer in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ute Kuhlemann -- On stasis in progress : variations on Dürer's engraving Melencolia I / Günter Grass -- Dürer and his image -- Early years in Nuremberg : apprenticeship and travel, 1471-93 -- Dürer's first visit to Italy and the opening of his workshop, 1494-1500 -- Development of print techniques and second visit to Italy, 1500-1507 -- the Heller altarpiece and the Passion series of prints, 1507-12 -- The master printmaker in imperial service, 1512-19 -- Journey to the Netherlands and last works, 1520-28 -- Dürer's influence on his contemporaries -- The impact of Dürer across Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The Dürer renaissance, c.1570-c.1630 -- Dürer's Rhinoceros -- Dürer and the Romantics : ideology and myth in the nineteenth century.

Summary:

Follows Albrecht Dürer's career from his first work in the medieval tradition of Martin Schongauer, through his Italian education in the classical tradition, to his sophisticated development of the woodcut and engraving techniques that changed the history of printmaking.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0691114935
9780691114934

Subject:

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 Exhibitions.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
Artists Germany Catalogs.
Art, Renaissance Europe, Northern.
Artistes Catalogues Allemagne.
Art de la Renaissance Europe septentrionale.
Art, Renaissance.
Artists.
Drawing, German 16th century Exhibitions.
Engraving, German 16th century Exhibitions.
Painters Germany 16th century Exhibitions.
Northern Europe.
Germany.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
Grass, Günter, 1927-2015.
Koerner, Joseph Leo.
Kuhlemann, Ute.
British Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227039
Call No.: NE89.D955 B3 2002
Status: Available