Dürer's Lost Masterpiece
Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 August 2023
- ISBN 9780198873105
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages474 pages
- Size 254x197x26 mm
- Weight 1218 g
- Language English 527
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Short description:
Dürer's Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), when he stopped painting altarpieces after arguing with a merchant patron over payment. As an eloquent homage to Dürer´s life, it brings us closer to the creation and meaning of his paintings than ever before.
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Dürer's Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), when he stopped painting altarpieces after arguing with a merchant patron over payment. As an eloquent homage to Dürer´s life, it brings us closer to the creation and meaning of his paintings than ever before.
Dürer's Lost Masterpiece considers the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), his time and his legacy. It tracks the history of a crucial, and often overlooked, turning point in his career, when Dürer stopped painting altarpieces after falling out with the Frankfurt merchant Jacob Heller over a commission. The story of this painting, as Dürer´s lost masterpiece, functions as a lens through which to view the new relationship developing between art, collecting and commerce in Europe up to the Thirty Years´ War (1618-1648) when global trade and cultural exchanges were increasing. At the heart of the book is the argument that merchants, and their mentalities, were crucial for the making of Renaissance art and its legacy for modern art.
The book draws on a decade of research, and uniquely draws the reader into the rich emotional worlds of three merchants each of whom typified the evolving relationship between art and commerce in that entrepreneurial, and often ruthless, age. It brings to life Dürer´s determined fight for creative makers to be adequately paid and explores the big questions about how European societies came to value the arts and crafts that remain relevant to our time.
Using Dürer's art and its reception as her prism, Rublack ... shows us a 'German Renaissance' we have lost sight of.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One: Letters to Heller
What Few Can Do
Herr Jacob Heller
Dürer´s Revenge
A Trio of Unconventional Friends
Preparing to Paint
Apelles AD
Letter 3
Who Will See It?
Oil and Pigment
Colour
Delivering
Journey to the Netherlands
Becoming Lutheran
Part Two: Tastemakers
Hans Fugger and the Age of Curiosity
Fugger´s Taste for Painting
In Style!
Spending on Style
The Court of Bavaria
The Flow of Things
The Debt Crisis Explodes
Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria
Part Three: Trading Art
The Lives of Northern Painters
The Art Agent
Becoming Philipp Hainhofer
Networks for Success
Visiting Wilhelm´s Court
Trading Silks and a Fragile Career
The Old Lord
Material Presence
Agent for the Duke of Pomerania
The Garden of Eichstätt
The Age of Maximilian I
Hunting Dürer
The Chase: Buying the Heller Altarpiece
Special Things
A British Spy?
Part Four: Shopping for Dürer in the Thirty Years´ War
Epilogue
Dürer's Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World
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