| Description |
1 online resource (439 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape; Imprint Page; Contents; 1. Independent Landscape; Where Landscape could Appear; Landscape and Text; Landscape as Parergon or By-Work; 2. Frame and Work; The German Artist's Career; Subject and Setting; The Landscape Study; 3. The German Forest; Two-Dimensional Pleasures; Germania Illustrata; Outdoor Worship; Wanderer, Traveller; 4. Topography and Fiction; The Topographical Drawing; Style in Altdorfer's Pen-and-Ink Landscapes; 5. The Published Landscape; Altdorfer's Public; 'Printed Drawings'; Order and Disorder |
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Afterword to the Second EditionReferences; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Checklist of Landscapes; Index |
| Summary |
In the early sixteenth century, Albrecht Altdorfer promoted landscape from its traditional role as background to its new place as the focal point of a picture. His paintings, drawings, and etchings appeared almost without warning and mysteriously disappeared from view just as suddenly. In Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape, Christopher S. Wood shows how Altdorfer transformed what had been the mere setting for sacred and historical figures into a principal venue for stylish draftsmanship and idiosyncratic painterly effects. At the same time, his landscapes offered a densely texture |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Altdorfer, Albrecht, approximately 1480-1538 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Altdorfer, Albrecht, approximately 1480-1538 fast |
| Subject |
Art, Modern.
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Landscape painting, Renaissance -- Germany
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Art, Modern
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Landscape painting, Renaissance
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781780231150 |
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1780231156 |
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