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Albrecht Dürer's Four Apostles
Image, Word, and Meaning
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The year 2026 means that 500 years have passed since Albrecht Dürer's monumental Four Apostles was completed, but these two panels continue to attract much scholarly and popular attention. This monograph argues persuasively that Dürer's diptych represents the artist's vision of ideal harmony even as it acknowledges the reality of distinct identities. Even five centuries later, this composition retains an uncanny ability to move viewers who live in very different times and places but still deal with the same issues of division and unity that challenged the artist, his church, and his city in the early sixteenth century.
Carl P.E. Springer holds the Chair of Excellence in the Humanities and is Professor of Classics at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. His most recent books include Cicero in Heaven, Luther's Rome/Rome's Luther, and The Latin Verse of Martin Luther.
Preface
List of Figures
Abbreviations
1 Preliminaries
2 Four
3 Venice
4 Reformations
5 Portraits
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
Abbreviations
1 Preliminaries
2 Four
3 Venice
4 Reformations
5 Portraits
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
This monograph should interest a broad spectrum of readers, including undergraduate and graduate students, professors, and other specialists in art history and early modern studies, as well as educated laypersons. Keywords: Reformation, Renaissance, Nuremberg, Venice, Art History, Painting, Luther, Bellini, German, Bible, Melanchthon, Four Humors, Portraits.