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Translating Nature into Art:

Holbein, the Reformation, and Renaissance Rhetoric
  • ISBN-13: 9780271036922
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Jeanne Nuechterlein
  • Price: AUD $204.00
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  • Local release date: 16/04/2011
  • Format: Hardback 264 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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Explores how the Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger came to develop his mature artistic styles through the key historical contexts framing his work: the controversies of the Reformation and Renaissance debates about rhetoric.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Statement About Orthography

Introduction: Holbein’s Reformation of Art

1 Holbein and the Basel Reformation

2 Choosing Styles

3 Seeing Christ

4 Judging Appearances

5 Translating Nature into Art

Conclusion: Noli me tangere

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“[Nuechterlein’s] arguments throughout are fresh, insightful, thoroughly researched, and persuasively and eloquently set forth. Sixteenth-century scholars, both in the field of art history and beyond, will find rich stimulation in this welcome new work.”

—Bobbi Dykema, Sixteenth Century Journal

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