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Jörg Breu the Elder
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- Book Synopsis
- This title was first published in 2002: JÃ**xB6;rg Breu belonged to the generation of German Renaissance artists that included DÃ**xBC;rer, Cranach, GrÃ**xBC;newald, Altdorfer, and, in his own city of Augsburg, Hans Burgkmair the Elder. His art registered the early reception of Italian art in Germany and spanned the dramatic years of the Reformation in Augsburg, when the city was riven with social and religious tensions. Uniquely, for a German artist, Breu left a diary chronicling his reaction to the massive social and cultural forces that engulfed him, including his own conversion to the Protestant cause. His story is representative of the condition of many artists during the Reformation years living through this watershed between two cultural eras, which witnessed the transfer of creative energies from religious painting to secular and applied forms of art. In this wide ranging and original study, Andrew Morrall examines the effect of these events on the nature and practice of JÃ**xB6;rg Breu's art and its reception, not just in his own period, but right up to the present day.
- About The Author
- Andrew Morrall is Professor and Chair of Academic Programmes Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, USA
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781138723207
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Routledge, (29 January 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 308
- Weight
- 453 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 244 x 243 x 29 mm
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