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In the early 1500s, almost without warning, Albrecht Altdorfer promoted landscape from its traditionally supplementary role to the centre of the picture field. Christopher S. Wood shows how Altdorfer (c.1480-1538) transformed what had been the mere setting for sacred and historical figures into a principal venue for stylish draftsmanship and idiosyncratic painterly effects. In this English-language study of this artist, Wood investigates the historical conditions that supported the emergence of landscape as an independent genre in the time of Durer. He argues that Altdorfer's work is explicable neither in terms of the "descriptive" traditions of the Low Countries nor the "discursive" mode of contemporary Italian painting; rather, it registers a third possibility of deictic, or self-referential, practice. He also reveals that Altdorfer's forest scenes are far from doctrinally innocent: the forest that Altdorfer painted, drew, and etched is both a refuge from Christian rites and a mythical setting of idolatry. Because of Altdorfer's influence on the next generation of German and Netherlandish artists, his work forms a crucial link between Northern religious imagery and the modern development of landscape as a genre.

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`Christopher Wood's book will immediately be recognized as a landmark in the art history of Northern Renaissance. An astonishing tour de force of scholarship, it is also written with exhilarating intellectual power.' --Simon Schama

`a study that is bound to become a standard work' --Independent on Sunday

`the well choosen illustrations are a revelation' --The Times

`excellent illustrations . . . [and] detailed exuberant comments leave the reader in no doubt about Altdorfer's brilliance and originality' --Anthony Grafton, The New York Review of Books

`sumptuous'
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Christopher S. Wood is professor in the Department of History of Art at Yale University.

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  • PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
  • Publication date1993
  • ISBN 10 0226906019
  • ISBN 13 9780226906010
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number2
  • Number of pages324
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