Albrecht Dürer : documentary biography : Dürer's personal and aesthetic writings, words on pictures, family, legal and business documents, the artist in the writings of contemporaries
2 volumes (xv, 1180 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references (volume 2, pages 1077-1110) and indexes
Contents:
Volume 1 : List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Translating Dürer -- Money, coinage and currency -- Abbreviations. 1471-1499 -- 1500-1505 -- 1505-1507 -- 1508-1509 -- 1510-1511 -- 1512-1515 -- 1516-1520 -- 1520-1521 -- Account of travels in the Netherlands -- The Netherlands sketchbooks -- The renewal of Dürer's imperial liferent. Volume 2 : 1521-1524 -- 1525-1528 -- Funerary and obituary verse and prose on the death of Albrecht Dürer, 1528 -- Albrecht Dürer's legacy and reception, 1528-1599 -- Index of texts -- Concordance -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Biographical index -- Index of places -- Index of themes, topics and concepts -- Illustration credits
Summary:
"Albrecht Dürer (1471--1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Dürer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries and succeeding generations added their accounts of him to this documentary legacy. Jeffrey Ashcroft's new book provides the first English translation of the whole corpus of Dürer's writings; the legal, financial, and administrative documentation of his life and work; and what others wrote about him during his life and in the following century. Translations of primary documents are accompanied by extensive commentary, providing Anglophone scholars access to German-language research. This unique combination of documentary evidence, current research, and exhaustive bibliography will doubtless become a definitive source for students and scholars of Dürer and his work, as well as for historians of early modern culture, language, and literature."-- Book jacket