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Sensuous Worship

Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany

By: Jeffrey Chipps Smith

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Sensuous Worship

Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany

By: Jeffrey Chipps Smith

It provides the first comprehensive treatment of the Jesuits' poorly understood but remarkable revitalization of German religious art and culture - an accomplishment that would guide the direction of both religious life and subsequent German Baroque art."--BOOK JACKET.

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Princeton University Press

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0691090726

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German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, C. 1520-1580

Art in an Age of Uncertainty

By: Jeffrey Chipps Smith

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German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, C. 1520-1580

Art in an Age of Uncertainty

By: Jeffrey Chipps Smith

Focusing on how sculptures adjusted to this cultural tumult, Jeffrey Chipps Smith offers the first comprehensive examination of the artistic response to the challenge of the Reformation in German lands. In so doing he exposes the years leading up to the Counter-Reformation as a period of surprising artistic vibrance

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0691032378

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Sensuous Worship

Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany

By: Jeffrey Chipps Smith

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Nuremberg, a Renaissance City, 1500–1618

By: Jeffrey Chipps Smith

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Nuremberg, a Renaissance City, 1500–1618

By: Jeffrey Chipps Smith

This illustrated study of Renaissance Nuremberg explores the city’s social and artistic history through the sixteenth century and beyond. The German city of Nuremberg reached the height of its artistic brilliance during the Renaissance, becoming one of the foremost cultural centers in all of Europe by 1500. Nuremberg was the home of painter Albrecht Dürer, whose creative genius inspired generations of German artists. However, Dürer was only one of a host of extraordinary painters, printmakers, sculptors, and goldsmiths working in the city. Following a map of the city’s principal landmarks, Guy Fitch Lytle provides a compact historical background for Jeffrey Chipps Smith's detailed discussions of the city’s social and artistic significance. Smith examines the religious function of art before and during the Reformation; the early manifestations of humanism in Nuremberg and its influence on the art of Dürer and his contemporaries; and the central role of Dürer’s pedagogical ideas and his workshop in the dissemination of Renaissance artistic concepts. Finally, Smith surveys the principal artists and stylistic trends in Nuremberg from 1500 to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War. Nuremberg: A Renaissance City, 1500-1618 contains biographical sketches of forty-five major artists of the period, plus more than three hundred illustrations depicting the city and its most magnificent artistic treasures.

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Univ of TX + ORM

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1477306374

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9781477306376

Albrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius

Decorating Museums in the Nineteenth Century

By: Jeffrey Chipps Smith

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Decorating Museums in the Nineteenth Century

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During the nineteenth century, Albrecht Dürer’s art, piety, and personal character were held up as models to inspire contemporary artists and—it was hoped—to return Germany to international artistic eminence. In this book, Jeffrey Chipps Smith explores Dürer’s complex posthumous reception during the great century of museum building in Europe, with a particular focus on the artist’s role as a creative and moral exemplar for German artists and museum visitors. In an era when museums were emerging as symbols of civic, regional, and national identity, dozens of new national, princely, and civic museums began to feature portraits of Dürer in their elaborate decorative programs embellishing the facades, grand staircases, galleries, and ceremonial spaces. Most of these arose in Germany and Austria, though examples can be seen as far away as St. Petersburg, Stockholm, London, and New York City. Probing the cultural, political, and educational aspirations and rivalries of these museums and their patrons, Smith traces how Dürer was painted, sculpted, and prominently placed to accommodate the era’s diverse needs and aspirations. He investigates what these portraits can tell us about the rise of a distinct canon of famous Renaissance and Baroque artists—addressing the question of why Dürer was so often paired with Raphael, who was considered to embody the greatness of Italian art—and why, with the rise of German nationalism, Hans Holbein the Younger often replaced Raphael as Dürer’s partner. Accessibly written and comprehensive in scope, this book sheds new light on museum building in the nineteenth century and the rise of art history as a discipline. It will appeal to specialists in nineteenth-century and early modern art, the history of museums and collecting, and art historiography.

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Penn State Press

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0271087552

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9780271087559

St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church

By: Jeffrey Muller

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St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church

By: Jeffrey Muller

Of more than forty churches that fortified Antwerp as the bulwark of the Counter Reformation in the Netherlands, only St. Jacob’s stands now with its art and archives intact. Parish church of the city’s elite, it is filled with masterpieces, including the altarpiece that Rubens painted for his own burial chapel. Works of architecture, painting, sculpture, and hundreds of sacred objects, documented by the archives, enable a reconstruction of the integral role that art played in the transformation of a whole society over the span of two centuries, from 1585 to the 1790s. It is a history of real people and organizations, who used art for religion, politics, and social purpose, joined together in a church that embodied a diverse community.

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BRILL

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9004311882

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Sensuous Worship

Sensuous Worship

German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, C. 1520-1580

German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, C. 1520-1580

Sensuous Worship

Sensuous Worship

Nuremberg, a Renaissance City, 1500–1618

Nuremberg, a Renaissance City, 1500–1618

Albrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius

Albrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius

St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church

St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church

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