The early D�rer / edited by Daniel Hess and Thomas Eser

Nuremberg: Thames & Hudson, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine gilt-blocked cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description: 603 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 28 cm. Notes: ""Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... organized by the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, May 24-September 2, 2012""--Colophon. Published to accompany the exhibition held 24 May - 2 Sept. 2012 at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-582) and indexes. Contents: A different early D�rer : three proposals / Thomas Eser -- An ideal neighborhood : the physical environment of the early D�rer as a space of experience / Sebastian Gulden -- Albrecht D�rer and Strasbourg / Michael Roth -- The young D�rer and Italy : contact with Italy and the mobility of art and artists around 1500 / Beate B�ckem -- D�rer, Celtis and the birth of landscape painting from the spirit of the ""Germania illustrata"" / J�rg Robert -- The ""other apelles"" and the ""painter with the bushy beard"" : D�rer as a subject in German literature around 1500 / Anja Grebe -- Tradition as challenge : D�rer's earliest studies for figures / Stephanie Buck -- D�rer's early private and commissioned portraits between tradition and innovation / Dagmar Hirschfelder -- Nature as art's supreme guide : D�rer's nature and landscape studies / Daniel Hess -- D�rer and stained glass / Hartmut Scholz -- Why woodcut? : D�rer in search of his medium and role / Peter Schmidt -- The young D�rer and 15th-century engraving / Lothar Schmitt -- D�rer as painter : the early work up to 1505 / Daniel Hess, Oliver Mack -- Sternkraut : ""The word that unlocks"" D�rer's self-portrait of 1493 / Shira Brisman -- Peripeteia : Konrad Celtis, the Nuremberg school of poets and D�rer's ""Ercules"" / Thomas Schauerte -- Architecture in the work of the young D�rer / G. Ulrich Grossmann -- D�rer's Madonnas? / Peggy Grosse -- ""Ein freie Hant"" : autonomy, drawing and the young D�rer / Stephanie Porras -- Catalogue. Section 1, The self and its new media ; Section 2, Copying and making new ; Section 3, ""Powerful art"" : D�rer as a dramatist ; Section 4, What is art? -- Appendix. Material for a D�rer matrix from 1471 to 1505. Subjects; D�rer, Albrecht 1471-1528 ; Exhibitions. D�rer, Albrecht 1471-1528 Criticism and interpretation. D�rer, Albrecht 1471-1528 ; Expositions .Artistes Allemagne ; Biographies ; Expositions. Art and Design.