Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape

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Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape

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Author: Christopher S. Wood

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9781780230801

Date: 15th April, 2014

Publisher: REAKTION BOOKS

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In the early sixteenth century, Albrecht Altdorfer promoted landscape from its traditional role as background to its new place as the focal point of a picture. His paintings, drawings, and etchings appeared almost without warning and mysteriously disappeared from view just as suddenly. In Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape , Christopher S. Wood shows how Altdorfer transformed what had been the mere setting for sacred and historical figures into a principal venue for stylish draftsmanship and idiosyncratic painterly effects. At the same time, his landscapes offered a densely textured interpretation of that quintessentially German locus-the forest interior. This revised and expanded second edition contains a new introduction, revised bibliography, and fifteen additional illustrations.

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