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Smith, Jeffrey Chipps, 1951-

Title & Author:

German sculpture of the later Renaissance, c. 1520-1580 : art in an age of uncertainty / Jeffrey Chipps Smith.

Publication:

Description:

xxi, 524 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-422) and index.
Ch. 1. For Our Salvation: The Role of Religious Art in Pre-Reformation Germany -- Ch. 2. Art or Idol? Iconoclasm. Three Case Studies. Nuremberg. Augsburg. Munster -- Ch. 3. The Impact of the Reformation on Religious Sculpture, c. 1520-1555. Sculptors in a Difficult Age. The Story of Four Sculptors. Loy Hering. Benedikt Dreyer. Peter Dell the Elder. Hans Reinhart. Complex Church Programs. The Neue Stift at Halle. Neuburg an der Donau. Torgau -- Ch. 4. Religious Sculpture after the Peace of Augsburg, 1555-1580. August of Saxony and the School of Dresden. Other Lutheran Sculptural Programs in North Germany. Catholic Sculpture and the Council of Trent. Five Case Studies. Augsburg. Trier. Wurzburg. Ingolstadt and Innsbruck -- Ch. 5. In Memoriam: Epitaphs and Simple Tombs. The Vischer Family. Loy Hering. Hans Schenck. Hans Bildhauer. Cornelis Floris of Antwerp. Changes in Memorial Form and Iconography -- Ch. 6. Commemorative Series and Complex Tombs. Episcopal and Princely Series. Complex Tomb Projects.
The Shrine of Elector Moritz of Saxony in Freiberg. The Cenotaph of Emperor Maximilian I in Innsbruck. The Prussian Memorials in Konigsberg -- Ch. 7. The Renaissance Fountain. House Fountains. Civic Fountains. Garden Fountains -- Ch. 8. Sculpture and Architecture. Residential Sculpture. The City Residence at Landshut: Ludwig X of Bavaria and the Decoration of the Italian Hall. From Dresden to Heidelberg, or the Transition from Ornament to Art. Sculpture and Civic Architecture. The Saga of the Nuremberg Rathaus Grille. Sculpture and Civic Aspirations: The Rathaus Porches in Cologne and Wittenberg -- Ch. 9. Small Collectible Sculpture: A Study in the History of Taste. Art in the Private Sphere. The Exquisite Relief and Statuette. Plaquettes and Replicable Sculpture. Sculpture and the Collector -- Ch. 10. The Emergence of Sculptural Portraits. The German Medal: Portrait of Success. Hans Schwarz and the Diet of Augsburg in 1518. The First Generation of Medallists. The Creative Impulse and Its Obstacles.
Portrait Alternatives: Reliefs and Busts. Hans Daucher and the Popularization of Portraiture. Johann Gregor van der Schardt and Bust Portraiture -- Conclusion: Steps towards a New Sculptural Legacy.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

During the Reformation, statues and carvings of saints, once commonly revered as aids to salvation, were condemned by increasing numbers of Protestants as fearsome idols. Moral doubts coupled with widespread acts of iconoclasm meant potential ruin for hundreds of German sculptors whose economic livelihood depended traditionally on church commissions.
Focusing on how sculptures adjusted to this cultural tumult, Jeffrey Chipps Smith offers the first comprehensive examination of the artistic response to the challenge of the Reformation in German lands. In so doing he exposes the years leading up to the Counter-Reformation as a period of surprising artistic vibrance.
Using paradigmatic case studies, Smith explores the reshaping of German sculpture. From the ashes of iconoclasm emerges a nascent Protestant art with dynamic new production centers, such as Dresden; an introspective Catholic renovatio occurs in which art presents a tangible means of reestablishing spiritual bonds with the pre-Reformation church.
Smith reveals the diversity and ingenuity of a generation of sculptors whose productions range from magnificent tombs, intricate fountains, and other architectural carvings articulating princely and civic aspirations, to intimate carved portraits, bronze statuettes, and finely cut stone reliefs intended to grace a patrician home. The volume comprises a biographical catalog of forty-four of the most important sculptors from the period.

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ISBN:

0691032378
9780691032375

Subject:

Plastik
Sculpture, German.
Sculpture, Renaissance Germany.
Reformation and art Germany.
Sculpture allemande.
Sculpture de la Renaissance Allemagne.
Réforme (Christianisme) et art Allemagne.
Reformation and art
Sculpture, Renaissance
Plastische kunst.
Sculpture allemande Renaissance.
Réforme et art Allemagne.
Sculpture 16e siècle z Allemagne.
Germany
Deutschland
Sculptures History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 107746
Call No.: ID NB565.S6; ID:96-B1135
Status: Available