| Description |
374 pages : illustrations (some coloured), maps ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
A copybook for stonemasons between the Gothic and the Renaissance / Adolf Reinle -- Santa Croce in Riva San Vitale : an early work by Carl Maderno / Heinz Horat -- Art history and art historiography of the Lake Constance region / Albert Knoepfli -- High altar and church floor / Paul Hofer -- Aspects of Genevois architecture from the Reformation to the nineteenth century / Leïla el-Wakil -- Lucerne : the simultaneity of urban processes in the nineteenth century / Beat Wyss -- "My true home in this world . . ." : John Ruskin and Switzerland / Georg Luck -- A Sunday morning (1908-1909) by Edouard Vallet -- Georg Germann -- From Heimatkunst to "degenerate" art : on the contemporary reception of Swiss painting, 1890-1914 / Hans A. Lüthy -- How Danube and Bosporus made a European out of Le Corbusier / Adolf Max Vogt -- Whistler, Welles, and the "Swiss" cuckoo clock / Dario Gamboni |
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Rémy Zaugg and the museum collection of Lucerne / Jean-Christophe Ammann -- On the emergence of a cybernetic mass culture and its implications for the making of art / Robert Fischer |
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The writing tablets of Charlemagne : two ivory diptychs in the abbey library of St. Gallen / Rudolf Schnyder -- The fourteenth-century gradual of Wettingen / Peter Hoegger -- Picture and prayer : late medieval passion-centered piety in St. Gallen prayer books / Peter Ochsenbein -- Big form -- small form : on interactions of late medieval art in border areas / Nott Caviezel -- The Swiss carnation masters : anonymity and artistic personality : painters between the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Christoph Eggenberger -- Konrad Witz and the Council of Basel / Dorothee Eggenberger -- Painting learns to fly : Hans Bock the Elder, The fall of the angels (1582) : fore-words on the subject of floating, flying, falling / Emil Maurer -- Memento mori : art and the cult of the dead in central Switzerland / Peter Felder |
| Analysis |
Art, Swiss |
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Geschichte |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 374) |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Art, Medieval -- Switzerland.
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Art, Modern -- Switzerland.
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Art, Swiss.
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| Author |
Horat, Heinz, editor
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| LC no. |
92025409 |
| ISBN |
1555950795 |
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