Painting on Light: Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and HolbeinThe names Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein the Younger evoke the dazzling accomplishments of Renaissance panel painting and printmaking, but they may not summon images of stained glass. Nevertheless, Dürer, Holbein, and their southern German and Swiss contemporaries designed some of the most splendid works in the history of the medium. This lavish volume is a comprehensive survey of the contribution to stained glass made by these extraordinarily gifted artists and the equally talented glass painters who rendered their compositions in glass. Included are discussions of both monumental church windows and smaller-scale stained-glass panels made for cloisters, civic buildings, residences, and private chapels. The subjects of these rarely seen drawings and panels range from religious topics to secular themes, including love, planets, hunts, and battles. Focusing on stained glass produced in Germany and Switzerland from about 1495 to 1530, Painting on Light includes drawings by Dürer, Holbein, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Baldung Grien, Jörg Breu the Elder, Hans Burgkmair, Urs Graf, Hans von Kulmbach, Hans Leu the Younger, Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, Hans Schäufelein, Hans Weiditz, and others. This informative book is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Getty Museum from July 11 through September 24, 2000, and from November 7, 2000, to January 4, 2001, at the Saint Louis Art Museum. |
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Monumental Stained Glass | 17 |
On the Artistic Technique of Glass | 57 |
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Albrecht Dürer altarpiece angels artist Augsburg Baldung Basel Becksmann Beham Berlin Bern BIBLIOGRAPHY black chalk black ink black vitreous paint Breu the Elder Breu's brown ink cartoon Christ Church clear glass cloister coat of arms Coburg color composition contours Corpus Vitrearum cream laid paper cycle dated depicting designs for stained drawing executed figures Freiburg Frenzel Germanisches Nationalmuseum glass painter glass panel Graphische Sammlung gray wash Hans Baldung Grien Hans Burgkmair Hans Schäufelein Hans von Kulmbach Hartmut Scholz hatching Hirsvogel the Elder Hirsvogel workshop Holbein the Younger Housebook Inscribed Jörg Breu Knappe Kulmbach Kupferstichkabinett Manuel Master Müller Munich Niklaus Manuel Deutsch Nuremberg Nuremberg 1961 Pen and black Pen and brown Pfinzing Photo Pot-metal PROVENANCE quatrefoil Renaissance roundel Saint Benedict Saint Sebald scene Schäufelein Schmitz shield sixteenth century Staatliche stained glass stained-glass designs stained-glass panels Strasbourg Swiss Veit Hirsvogel window Winkler woodcut yellow stain