The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art Details
About the Author Joseph Leo Koerneris the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. His books include The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art and TheReformation of the Image, copublished by Reaktion Books and the University of Chicago Press. In 1995 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more
Reviews
A capacious introduction to the beginnings of self-portraiture in European art and an awesome study of two artists, a master and a disciple, struggling to express what it is to be an artist. There's a great chapter here about Cranach and the art for the Protestant cause, but mainly it is Koerner's analysis of Dürer's iconic self-portrait, and the strange, demonic and macabre images by his less known follower, Hans Baldung Grien, that this book will be remembered for.