German Art History—History of Art 262

Larry Silver

Fall 1999

Required: Erwin Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer (Princeton)

David Landau and Peter Parshall, The Ren. Print (Yale)

Thomas Kaufmann, Court, Cloister and City (Chicago)

Michael Baxandall, Limewood Sculptors of Ren. Germany (Yale)

Michael Camille, Gothic Visions

Christa Grossinger, Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Ren. Art (Manchester)

Recommended: Joseph Koerner, Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Ren. Art (Chicago)

Bob Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk (Oxford)

Otto P@ cht, The Practice of Art History (Harvey Miller)

 

I. Devotional Art

    1. Iconic Painting and Altarpieces
    2. Devotional Prints
    3. Sculpture and Altarpieces
    4. "Grunewald"
Readings: Landau/Parshall, 1-65; Kaufmann, Chapter 3; Baxandall

Recommended: Andree Hayum, The Isenheim Altarpiece; Michael Camille, Gothic Visions

II. Albrecht Durer

    1. Devotional Printmaking and Painting
    2. Naturalism
    3. Renaissance
    4. Reformation
Readings: Panofsky; Kaufmann, Chapter 4; Parshall/Landau, 169-206; Koerner, Chapters 1-2, 9-10

III. Politics and Propaganda—Emperor Maximilian I

Readings: Kaufmann, Chapter 2; Parshall/Landau, 206-19

IV. Reception of Durer

    1. Lucas Cranach
    2. Hans Baldung
    3. Albrecht Altdorfer
Readings: Kaufmann, Chapter 5; Landau/Parshall, 223-237, 309-358; Koerner, Chapters 16, 12-15

V. Hans Holbein—Northern Renaissance?

    1. Switzerland
    2. England—Henry VIII
Recommended: Susan Foister et al., Holbein’s Ambassadors; Roy Strong, Holbein and Henry VIII

VI. Final Flowering—Prague around 1600

Readings: Kaufmann, Chapters 7-8

Recommended: Kaufmann, The School of Prague; Prague and Rudolf II (exh. cat.);

Jeffrey Chipps Smith, German Sculpture of the Later Ren., ca. 1520-1580

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking Assignments

1. PMA—Gallery 200, Sculpture

Crucifixion Group, South Belgian (Flemish); St. Martin and Beggar, Belgium,

Nikolaus Weckmann, Saints Barbara and Catherine, Master of St. Benedict, St. Ann and Virgin Reading

Gallery 255, Altarpiece with Scenes of the Passion, Flemish Artists, ca. 1535

Bartel Bruyn the Elder, Cologne, Donors with Children and Saints (Peter, Ann)

Gallery 256, Room from Stiegerhof, near Villach (1589)—portraits by Cranach and Huber

Gallery 254, Lucas Cranach, Cupid (fragment)

Gallery 218, Paintings

Master of Lyversberg Passion/Master of St. George, Cologne, Ascension of Christ;

Master of Holy Kinship, Cologne, Sts. Peter and Andrew

Master of St. Bartholomew, Cologne, Descent from the Cross

Jan Baegart/Master of Cappenburg, Christ before Annas (fragment)

2. Allentown (PA) Museum of Art

Gregor Erhart, St. Sebastian, ca. 1500

Hans Suess von Kulmbach, Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1513

Lucas Cranach, Portrait of George of Saxony, after 1519

3. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art

Master of St. Veronica, Crucifixion

Johann Koerbeke, Ascension

Master of St. Bartholomew, Baptism

Albrecht Durer, Madonna and Child

Albrecht Durer, Portrait of Clergyman

Matthias Grunewald, Small Crucifixion

Lucas Cranach, Nymph of the Spring

Lucas Cranach, Crucifixion with Centurion

Hans Baldung, St. Anne with Virgin and Child and St. John Baptist

Hans Holbein, Sir Brian Tuke

Hans Holbein, Prince Edward as Child

Plus major exhibitions, "Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages" (Oct-Dec)

And "From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and Berlin" (Oct 24-Dec)

4. New York, Metropolitan Museum

Albrecht Durer, Salvator Mundi

Albrecht Durer, Virgin and Child with St. Anne (1519)

Hans Baldung, St. John on Patmos

Hans Suess von Kulmbach, Ascension of Christ

Girl Making a Garland with Cat (1508)

Hans Holbein the Younger

Benedikt von Hertenstein (1517)

Derick Berck (1536)

Member of the Wedigh Family (1532)

Lucas Cranach

Martyrdom of St. Barbara

Judgment of Paris

Venus and Cupid as Honey Thief

John Duke of Saxony