Article: A major new study of Durer places the artist in his intellectual context.(Albrecht Durer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation and the Art of Faith)(Book Review)

Albrecht Durer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation and the Art of Faith David Hotchkiss Price University of Michigan Press, 42 [pounds sterling] ($67.50) ISBN 0-472-113413-7

David Hotchkiss Price, Professor of Church History at Southern Methodist University, is a theologian and a historian of ideas and it is this that makes his contribution to Durer studies so valuable. He shifts the customary art-historical perspective on Durer's evolution, paying little attention to the Italian journeys, but studying his work mainly in the context of Northern, and often specifically Nurembergian humanism. His accounts of the thinking and attitudes of Durer's patrons and close ...

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