Grunewald Drawings book by Matthias Grunewald, Eberhard Ruhmer
Language: English
Published by Phaidon Press Ltd, 1970
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: West Cove UK, Wellington, United KingdomWest Cove UK
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Plates bright and vivid. name in front. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Among the expressive German artists of the sixteenth century, Gr?newald (c. 1470- 1528) created the most personal vision of traditional Christian themes. J.-K. Huys- mans called him, with good reason, "the most daring of realists and the most daring of idealists". Of his few surviving paintings, the best known and the most powerful is the Isenheim altar-piece in the Museum at Colmar. Gr?newald's thirty-seven surviving draw- ings are masterpieces of the draughtsman's art; some are rapid or detailed sketches from models, others are finished drawings in their own right or compositional sketches for lost or extant paintings. All of them reveal the hand of a master towering above his contemporaries and transcending the artistic traditions of his time. The present book opens with a penetrating essay, which analyses in detail the style and technique of the drawings. The author shows how Gr?newald remains in con- trast to his great contemporary Albrecht D?rer an artist whose most conscious and deliberate cr.…
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- Title
- Grunewald Drawings book by Matthias Grunewald, Eberhard Ruhmer
- Author
- Matthias Grunewald, Eberhard Ruhmer
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press Ltd
- Publication year
- 1970
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0714813729
- ISBN 13
- 9780714813721
- Seller catalogs
- All Things Art, Graphic Arts and Decorative Arts
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