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Author Smith, Jeffrey Chipps, 1951- author.

Title Albrecht Dürer and the embodiment of genius : decorating museums in the nineteenth century / Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Preludes -- Self-fashioning and the early cult of Albrecht Dürer -- The Alte Pinakothek in Munich -- The Alte Pinakothek's direct heirs -- Dürer, Raphael, and Holbein in early civic and princely institutions : Frankfurt and Karlsruhe -- Dürer and Germania in Berlin -- The figured façade, or Dürer accompanied -- Stairs to immortality -- Dürer, Emperor Maximilian I, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Summary "Explores the complex posthumous reception of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) as the embodiment of Germany's past artistic greatness and its current cultural aspirations and as a creative and moral examplar for contemporary artists and museum visitors"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 -- Appreciation
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 -- Portraits
SUBJECT Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 fast
Subject Art museums -- History -- 19th century
Art museums -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
ART -- History -- Renaissance.
Art appreciation
Art museums
Portraits
Germany
Genre/Form Portraits
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271087573
0271087579