DÜRER, Albrecht.
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.Good copy in contemporary binding of the first complete edition of Albrecht Dürer s collected works in German - handsomely illustrated with c.400 woodcuts produced using Dürer s original blocks from the 1525-28 eds. In the illustration of principles [of Renaissance art] lies the great historical importance of Dürer s theoretical writings . They were the foundation of accepted aesthetic dogma until the C19 (PMM 53, 1525 ed. of Underweysung der Messung ). Dürer (1471-1528) was a German painter, printmaker and draughtsman. After travelling in Germany and Italy, he returned to his native Nuremberg, and had Maximilian I as his patron from 1512. His fame spread throughout Europe thanks to his book illustrations, prints and cartographic works. He also wrote several theoretical works in German. Dürer, like Luther, had to create a German language of his own. Like Luther, he took a more or less standardized chancery style as a basis and infused life into it, not by a futile attempt at humanistic oratory but, on the contrary, by listening to the man in the street . In the end [he] not only managed to describe complicated geometrical constructions more briefly, more clearly and more exhaustively than any professional mathematician of his time, but also expressed historical facts and philosophical ideas in a prose style no less "classic" than Luther s translation of the Bible (Panofsky, p.245). . . ..At the core of Dürer s theoretical works lies the Renaissance art principle that t
- Binding: Hardcover
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