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Author Smith, Jeffrey Chipps, 1951- author.

Title Albrecht Dürer and the embodiment of genius : decorating museums in the nineteenth century / Jeffrey Chipps Smith.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
Contents Preludes -- Self-fashioning and the early cult of Albrecht Dürer -- The Alte Pinakothek in Munich -- The Alte Pinakothek's direct heirs -- Dürer, Raphael, and Holbein in early civic and princely institutions : Frankfurt and Karlsruhe -- Dürer and Germania in Berlin -- The figured façade, or Dürer accompanied -- Stairs to immortality -- Dürer, Emperor Maximilian I, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Summary "Explores the complex posthumous reception of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) as the embodiment of Germany's past artistic greatness and its current cultural aspirations and as a creative and moral examplar for contemporary artists and museum visitors"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 -- Appreciation.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 -- Portraits.
Portraits.
Art museums -- History -- 19th century.
Art museums.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Art museums -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
History.
Germany.
ART -- History -- Renaissance.
Art appreciation.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Portraits.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Jeffrey Chipps, 1951- Albrecht Dürer and the embodiment of genius. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020] 9780271085944 (DLC) 2020020020 (OCoLC)1141152804
ISBN 9780271087573 (electronic book)
0271087579 (electronic book)
9780271085944
0271085940