Author: HUTCHINSON, JANE CAMPBELL
Title: Albrecht Durer: A Biography
Description: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0691002975. Illustrated by Albrecht Durer. Soft cover is brown with white lettering on front and spine. Pages are clean and tight, appears as if unused. Lavishly illustrated with 3 maps, and 40 b/w plates. "Durer [1471-1528] was one of the world's great artistic geniuses, unique among his contemporaries in his ability to translate the basic principles of the Italian Renasissance into the the northern European style to which he was born. In addition, he was an exemplary figure of the realy Reformation: one of the first people to become interested in Martin Luther's writings, he also counted most of Germany's leading humanists among his friends. " The portrait of his father, in London's National Gallery, is magnificent. Notes; bibliography; index. ; B/w maps and illustrations; 9.10 X 6 X 0.80 inches; xi, 247 pages; Cover has slight rubbing, and bumping.. Near Fine .

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