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Albrecht Dürer: Documentary Biography
Jeffrey Ashcroft
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Description for Albrecht Dürer: Documentary Biography
Hardback. Num Pages: 1216 pages, 70 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACND; AGB; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 184 x 254 x 100. Weight in Grams: 2482.
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Durer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries and succeeding generations added their accounts of him to this documentary legacy. Jeffrey Ashcroft's new book provides the first English translation of the whole corpus of Durer's writings; the legal, financial, and administrative documentation of his life and work; and what others wrote about him during his life and in the following century. Translations of primary documents are accompanied by ... Read more
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Durer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries and succeeding generations added their accounts of him to this documentary legacy. Jeffrey Ashcroft's new book provides the first English translation of the whole corpus of Durer's writings; the legal, financial, and administrative documentation of his life and work; and what others wrote about him during his life and in the following century. Translations of primary documents are accompanied by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
2482g
Number of Pages
1216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300210842
SKU
V9780300210842
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About Jeffrey Ashcroft
Jeffrey Ashcroft is honorary research fellow in the School of Modern Languages and the Reformation Studies Institute at the University of St. Andrews.
Reviews for Albrecht Dürer: Documentary Biography
'An easily available and up-to-date English translation of Durer's writings is long overdue, and students and scholars will find this text indispensable' - Olenka Horbatsch, Art Newspaper One of the achievements of Ashcroft's edition is to show the artwork not as a finished masterpiece but as a struggle proceeding through time - Adam Smyth, LRB Ashcroft's ... Read more