Author : John Oliver Hand
Release : 1993
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis German Paintings of the Fifteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries by : John Oliver Hand
Download or read book German Paintings of the Fifteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries written by John Oliver Hand. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume documents the collection of early German paintings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., which includes outstanding works by such fifteenth- and sixteenth-century masters as Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Hans Holbein the Younger as well as the only painting by Matthias Grunewald in the United States. Following an introduction to the collection, entries on the paintings are arranged alphabetically by artist, with a biography and bibliography for each; individual entries provide full and up-to-date scholarly and technical information. Questions of attribution, iconography, social and religious function, and historical context are also discussed, and where relevant, comparative examples, reconstructions of altarpieces, x-radiographs, and infrared reflectogram assemblies are supplied. This catalogue, the most complete record of the collection available, also contains the results of dendrochronological examinations of the panel paintings"--Publisher's description.
