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Wilhelm Vöge’s sonnet “On the platform of Strasbourg Cathedral” and his monograph on Niclas Hagnower [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2021
Wilhelm Vöge (1868–1952) was a pioneer of German art history whose scientific work connects profound historical research with a language of description very close to poetry, meant to concentrate his scientific findings in order to get into contact with ...
Stefanie Leibetseder
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Ecologies of Blue Paper

21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, 2023
This article examines blue paper as an ecological solution in drawing practice by investigating the questions of when and under which circumstances German artists in the early sixteenth century decided to use blue paper. Blue paper had several aesthetic,
Iris Brahms
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Traces of the Rosary Confraternity, Albrecht Dürer, and Two Emperors in the Frescoes of the Church of St. Primus above Kamnik

Acta Historiae Artis Slovenica, 2019
The essay addresses the complex background of the origins of the high quality frescoes in the succursal church of St. Primus and Felician above Kamnik from the beginning of the 16th century.
Mija Oter Gorenčič
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Albrecht Dürer And The 16th Century Melancholy

, 2020
Little has been discussed in academia about the close relationship between the Renaissance of the 16th century and melancholy humor, and esoteric elements arising mainly from Florentine Neoplatonism.
M. Rodrigues
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Visualizando as obras cartográficas celestiais de Albrecht Dürer

MODOS: Revista de História da Arte
This article investigates the production of a terrestrial map and two celestial maps by Albrecht Dürer in the early sixteenth century, under the patronage of Emperor Maximilian I.
J. Mendes
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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Exploring the Symbiotic Relationship Between Art and Mathematics in Albrecht Dürer’s Works

Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences
Albrecht Dürer, one of the most important artists of the northern renaissance, lived and worked from 1471 to 1528 as a painter, printmaker, and theorist.
Ziyi Li
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Reading Dürer in Late Sixteenth‐Century Padua: Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582), His Library and the Annotated Institutionum geometricarum (Paris, 1535)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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Renaissance self-portraits and the moral judgement of taste [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2017
The following comments are concerned with a special feature of the portrait: clothing and its profound significance. Two artist’s portraits are exemplary for a view at artists who refer to their social standing.
Philipp Zitzlsperger
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A misura d’uomo. Disegno e proporzione della figura vitruviana

Diségno, 2020
Tra le immagini che descrivono le proporzioni del corpo umano quella di Leonardo da Vinci è sicuramente la più efficace, nonostante l’iconico disegno non segua fedelmente le misure indicate da Vitruvio.
Veronica Riavis
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