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European Art since the Renaissance

The Eloquent Artist: Essays on Art, Art Theory & Architecture, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century

by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

24 x 17 cm
546 pp. 224 illus.

£150.00

Publication: 2004

ISBN 1 899828 65 6
Cloth Bound

This volume presents a selection of studies written during the past decades by Professor DaCosta Kaufmann on a variety of topics concerning the history of painting, sculpture, art theory, collecting, and architecture. It includes several of his ground-breaking essays interpreting art at the Prague court of Rudolf II (1576-1512). However, the collection represents other aspects of the broad range of his interests as well: the papers gathered here range through Central Europe from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century.

In addition to essays on Rudolfine Prague, another "complex of papers deals with art at other courts in Salzburg, Germany, the Low Countries, and Denmark in the early "seventeenth century, and with art during the time of the Thirty Years' War. Two papers consider important developments in the history of collecting. Five essays offer interpretations of architecture (and sculpture) in Bohemia, Germany, Austria and Poland during the eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

While concentrating on the visual arts and architecture of Central Europe, many of these essays engage with broader issues of cultural history. Many of them also offer approaches"which will be of more general methodological interest.

Contents:

Introduction
Interpretation and Art Theory, Chiefly in Relation to Sculpture and Painting at the Court of Rudolf II: Hermeneutics in the History of Art: Remarks on the Reception of Dürer in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-century Art
The Eloquent Artist: Towards an Understanding of the Stylistics of Painting at the Court of Rudolf II
Perspectives on Prague: Rudolfine Stylistics Reviewed
Reading Van Mander on the Reception of Rome: A Crux in the Biography of Spranger in the Schilder-Boeck
Gar lecherlich: 'Low-life Painting' in Rudolfine Prague
Empire Triumphant: Notes on an Imperial Allegory by Adriaen de Vries in the National Gallery of Art
A 'Modern' Sculptor in Prague. Adriaen de Vries and the Paragone of the Arts
Art of the Seventeenth Century (including the Impact and Aftermath of Rudolfine Prague): Die Kunst am Hofe Rudolf II in Bezug auf das Salzburg Wolf Dietrichs
Planeten im kaiserlichen Universum. Prag und die Kunst an den deutschen Fürstenhöfen zur Zeit Rudolfs II.
Archduke Albrecht as an Austrian Habsburg and Prince of the Empire
Review Article."Christian IV and Europe, The 19th Art Exhibition of the Council of Europe, Copenhagen, 1988,"
War and Peace, Art and Destruction, Myth and Reality: Considerations of the Thirty Years' War in Relation to Art in (Central) Europe
La guerre de trente ans a-t-elle eu lieu? Continuités et discontinuités pendant la guerre
Collecting and Architecture, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century
From Treasury to Museum: The Collections of the Austrian Habsburgs
A Gesamtkunstwerk in the Unmaking? The Kunstkammer and the Age of the Bel Composto
Schlüter's Fate. Comments on Sculpture, Science and Patronage in Central and Eastern Europe c. 1700
Das Theater der Pracht, Charolottenburg und die europäische Hofkultur um 1700
'Gothico More Nondum Visa': The ' Modern Gothic' Architecture of Jan Blažej Santini Aichl
Schlaun - ein unzeitgemäßer Zeitgenosse?
Architecture and Sculpture [in Schubert's Vienna]
Index
Plates