The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art

by Joseph Leo Koerner

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking and elegantly written study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany. Opening up new modes of inquiry for historians of art and early modern Europe, Koerner examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer and Hans Baldung Grien reflected in their masterworks the changing status of the self in sixteenth-century Germany.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226449971
• ISBN13: 9780226449975
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"