Jörg Breu the Elder: Art, Culture, and Belief in Reformation AugsburgCover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Introduction: The artist's smile -- 1 The artist and his workshop, C.1498-C.1517 -- Beginnings: the Austrian altarpieces -- Economic background -- Works in fresco -- Panel painting: style and patronage -- The artist as designer -- Woodcuts -- Designs for sculpture -- Designs for glass -- The drawings for the Months of the Year -- Painters, glaziers and glass-painters -- 2 The turn towards Italy -- Augsburg and the South -- The Aufhausen Madonna -- The Prayerbook of Maximilian I -- Image and verse -- The frescoes for the Augsburg Town Hall -- The organ shutters of the Fugger Chapel in St Anna, Augsburg -- The large wings -- The trip to Italy -- The small organ shutters -- Style and dating -- 3 Breu and the Reformation -- The course of the Reformation in Augsburg -- The Reformation and the arts -- The Chronicle -- Breu's Protestantism: a case study in Reformation piety -- Painting and the Reformation -- Woodcut illustrations -- The soldier as unrepentant thief -- Garlic, the Jews and 'the sleep of ignorance': The Mocking of Christ -- St Thomas as Exemplar of Faith: humanist responses to the Reformation and the origins of the Emblem -- The St Ursula Altarpiece: iconoclasm and the image question -- Breu and Zwinglianism -- The Holy Works of Mercy -- 4 The 'deutsch' and the 'welsch': neoclassicism and its uses -- 5 Conclusion -- Appendix: Hand-list of surviving or recorded designs for glass and glass roundels -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Jörg Breu the Elder: Art, Culture, and Belief in Reformation Augsburg Andrew Morrall Limited preview - 2017 |
Jörg Breu the Elder: Art, Culture, and Belief in Reformation Augsburg Andrew Morrall Limited preview - 2017 |