Books by Joseph Leo Koerner
“Joseph Koerner is one of the great art historians of my generation. What Koerner brings out in this book is art history as a history of ideas or a history of mentalities, using Bosch and Bruegel as his keystones.” Read more...
The best books on Northern Renaissance
Christopher S. Wood, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
“This is a seminal text in art history because it refers not only to Dürer specifically, but to the evolution of the idea of the artist.” Read more...
The best books on Albrecht Dürer
Ulinka Rublack, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
The Reformation of the Image
by Joseph Leo Koerner
Joseph Leo Koerner argues there was a Protestant art, and it was particularly didactic.
Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape
by Joseph Leo Koerner
Of the German painters at the end of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th, the best known outside Germany is probably Caspar David Friedrich. His landscape paintings – craggy mountains, beaches along endless seas, ancient forests, often with one or two figures of men and women who observe this world, are part of it, but also threatened by it – are metaphors not only for the human condition in general, but often also for life in Central Europe after the French Revolution, the destruction of old loyalties, and the emergence of a new nationalism.
Interviews where books by Joseph Leo Koerner were recommended
The best books on War and Intellect, recommended by Peter Paret
Professor at the Institute of Advanced Study views art, literature, politics and war as intimately interconnected and says cultural attitudes directly affect military doctrine. He chooses five books on war & intellect
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The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
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Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art
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The Reformation of the Image
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Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch
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Anachronic Renaissance
by Alexander Nagel & Christopher Wood
The best books on Reinterpreting Medieval Art, recommended by Marc Michael Epstein
The best books on Reinterpreting Medieval Art, recommended by Marc Michael Epstein
The professor of religion explains how medieval Jews and Christians collaborated. He recommends five books that have changed the way we look at medieval art.
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Albrecht Dürer
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Dürer
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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
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The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
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Perfection’s Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I
by Mitchell B. Merback
The best books on Albrecht Dürer, recommended by Ulinka Rublack
The best books on Albrecht Dürer, recommended by Ulinka Rublack
Albrecht Dürer was the archetype of the Renaissance man, but also the prototypical artist-merchant, and very much a man of the world, says historian Ulinka Rublack. Dürer’s self-portraits, particularly the Christ-like image from 1500, have branded him as art history’s ultimate narcissist, but this is a view that does justice to neither his work nor to the complex and conflicted creative individual that he was, she says. She recommends books on Dürer’s Renaissance that reveal a much more nuanced artist and a richer sense of the times in which he lived and created.
The best books on The Lives of Artists, recommended by Maria Loh
We live in an age obsessed with self-image. Technology has made the ‘selfie’ a ubiquitous form of social currency. Renaissance means may have been very different, but celebrity artists in Medici Florence dealt with many of the issues relating to identity and authorship that we grapple with today. Maria Loh, author of Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master, talks to Five Books about the curated self.
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The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany
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The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550
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The Art of Arts
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Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life
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Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
by Christopher P. Heuer
The best books on Northern Renaissance, recommended by Christopher S. Wood
The best books on Northern Renaissance, recommended by Christopher S. Wood
The Renaissance had quite distinct manifestations in Northern Europe and Italy: if the Southern Renaissance was all about abundance and positivity, the dominant theme of the Northern Renaissance was negativity, says New York University Professor Christopher S. Wood. He recommends what to read to learn more about the Northern Renaissance, from Bosch’s fantasy bestiary of the demonic and the grotesque, to Bruegel’s comic and badly proportioned peasants.