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Disharmony of the Spheres:

The Europe of Holbein's Ambassadors
  • ISBN-13: 9780271083407
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Jennifer Nelson
  • Price: AUD $217.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/11/2019
  • Format: Hardback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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Explores how certain educated northern Europeans in the first half of the sixteenth century increasingly saw their world as disharmonious and inclusive of mutual contradiction. Examines how early modern writers grappled with the problem of cultural, religious, and cosmological difference in relation to notions of universals and the divine.


List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. Anamorphosis as Symbolic Form

2. Melanchthon’s Imperfect Mathematics

3. Hartmann’s Locative Science

4. Erasmus Enumerates Europe

5. The Self-Dissimilar Salvation of Holbein’s Ambassadors

Notes

Bibliography

Index



“A true delight. This is one of the most engaging monographs in art history (in fact truly interdisciplinary, but with a strong foundation in art history) I have had the pleasure to read in a long time.”

—Rebecca Zorach, author of The Passionate Triangle

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