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Albrecht Altdorfer in seiner Zeit: Religiose und profane Themen in der Kunst um 1500

2010; Oxford University Press; Volume: CXXV; Issue: 515 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/ehr/ceq232

1477-4534

Jean Michel Massing,

Historical and Religious Studies of Rome

The present study, a Habilitationsschrift presented at the Georg-August-Universität at Göttingen, begins with a useful assessment of the literature on Albrecht Altdorfer and the so-called Danube School. The obvious aim is to focus on the artist's works in all media and place them within their iconographic and cultural contexts. The result is a very substantial study divided into two extensive parts, respectively on religious late medieval imagery (Von himmlischer Liebe) and on profane love (Von irdischer Liebe); the first section mainly exploits prayer books and devotional texts, exegetic and catechistic treatises, while the second uses the context of novels and novellas, as well as didactic and satiric poems to unravel the symbolism and the wider resonance of Altdorfer's works. The first and largest section of Part One starts with an account of devotion in the late middle ages. It is made up of four sections, of...