"An informative and engrossing narrative."---Ellen Shultz, New York
Times Book Review
". . . this masterful tabulation of the known facts of Durer's life
is both readable and authoritative, and it provides the fullest
assortment of well-translated documents since William Martin
Conway. Hutchison has long been acknowledged as a leading scholar
of German prints and their makers, and her text extends its
biographical mission to provide instructive asides about the
intellectual and cultural milieu of Durer's Nuremberg."---Larry
Silver, Sixteenth Century Journal
"An informative and engrossing narrative."---Ellen Shultz,
New York Times Book Review
". . . this masterful tabulation of the known facts of Durer's life
is both readable and authoritative, and it provides the fullest
assortment of well-translated documents since William Martin
Conway. Hutchison has long been acknowledged as a leading scholar
of German prints and their makers, and her text extends its
biographical mission to provide instructive asides about the
intellectual and cultural milieu of Durer's Nuremberg."---Larry
Silver, Sixteenth Century Journal
Political reactionary, leftist sympathizer, Renaissance polymath, man of action, xenophobe, paragon of virtue--German artist Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) has inspired contradictory images, allowing various political and aesthetic factions to place him within their heritage. In this stolid, workmanlike biography, University of Wisconsin art historian Hutchison dispels all manner of misconceptions surrounding Durer; for example, the ``pseudo-issue'' of whether he was Catholic or Protestant (he was sympathetic to Luther's views but was in no formal sense a Protestant). Instead of the conventionally perceived dour melancholic, Hutchison limns a humanist intellectual who exchanged burlesque poetry with Reformation leader Lazarus Spengler, and an artist anxious over eyesight that began to fail in his late 40s. Reproductions of paintings, woodcuts, engravings and sketches help us appreciate anew Durer's astonishing powers of observation. (Oct.)
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