《Dürer's Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World》PDF电子书下载
《Dürer's Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World》内容简介
Ulinka Rublack / Oxford University Press / 2023-8-10 -
This book is about the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), his time, and his legacy. It tracks the history of a crucial, and often overlooked, turning point in his career, when Dürer stopped painting altarpieces after falling out with the Frankfurt merchant Jakob Heller over a commission. The story of this painting, as Dürer’s lost masterpiece, functions as a lens through which to view the new relationship developing between art, collecting, and commerce in Europe up to the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) when global trade and cultural exchanges were increasing. At the heart of the book is the argument that merchants, and their mentalities, were crucial for the making of Renaissance art and its legacy for modern art. The book draws on a decade of research, and uniquely draws the reader into the rich emotional worlds of three merchants each of whom typified the evolving relationship between art and commerce in that entrepreneurial and often ruthless age. It brings to life Dürer’s determined fight for creative makers to be adequately paid, and explores the big questions about how European societies came to value the arts and crafts that remain relevant to our time.