The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer 9780691257495

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
PREFACE
List of Illustrations
Introduction to the Princeton Classic Edition
Introduction
I Apprenticeship and Early Years of Travel, 1484-1495
II Five Years of Intense Productivity, 1495-1500
III Five Years of Rational Synthesis, 1500-1505
IV The Second Trip to Italy and the Culmination of Painting, 1505-1510/11
V Reorientation in the Graphic Arts; the Culmination of Engraving, 1507/11-1514
VI Dürer's Activity for Maximilian I; the "Decorative Style/5 1512/13-1518/19
VII The Crisis of 1519; the Journey to the Netherlands, 1520-1521; the Last Works, 1521-1528
VIII Dürer as a Theorist of Art
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX
Indices
THE ILLUSTRATIONS

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THE LIFE AND ART OF ALBRECHT Dt)RER

The Life and oArt of

ALBRECHT DURER BY ERWIN PANOFSKY

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

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