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Carl Becker, Decorative Arts from the Middle Ages to Renaissance: BECKER, DECORATIVE ARTS-TRILINGUE - Hardcover
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Treasures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Eight centuries of European applied arts
When Kunstwerke und Geräthschaften des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (1852–1863) was published, what purchasers in fact bought wasa small printed museum of unusual treasures. With 216 hand-colored copperplate engravings, the publication givesa comprehensive overview of applied arts in Europe from the 9th to the 16th centuries. The objects presented comprise furniture, metalwork, jewelry, tapestries, and works of bookbinding. Carefully selected masterpieces such as the gilt Corvinus goblet, an enamelled saltcellar, and medieval ivory combs are depicted, along with a decorative sword, now lost.
The editor Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was head of the Royal Cabinet of Prints and Drawings in Munich and later director of the Bavarian National Museum. His work helped influence the creation of new museums of art and design – the South Kensington Museum in London (today the Victoria and Albert Museum), founded in 1852, being the very first – in which artists could study the hand-crafted masterpieces of earlier epochs.
Although the co-editor Carl Becker (1794-1859) commissioned various artists to make drawings of the historical originals forKunstwerke und Geräthschaften, the signatures on the plates show that most of the illustrations stem from the hand of artist Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck and he can therefore be considered as the work’s main draughtsman; considering that Becker died before the completion of the work, the most influential figure behind it was undoubtedly Hefner-Alteneck. Before his collaboration with Becker, Hefner-Alteneck had previously publishedTrachten des christlichen Mittelalters (Costumes of the Christian Middle Ages).
With their publication, Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck and Carl Becker gave expression to the 19th century’s revived interest in the art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. By selecting masterpieces from public and private collections, and reproducing them faithfully in pictures, they created a document of artistic quality in itself, which also provides evidence of works which have since been lost.
With this new edition, which includes a commentary, TASCHEN is making an important publication accessible once more, giving a glimpse of the treasure chambers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.This complete reprint was created on the basis of an original copy in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart.
The editor Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was head of the Royal Cabinet of Prints and Drawings in Munich and later director of the Bavarian National Museum. His work helped influence the creation of new museums of art and design – the South Kensington Museum in London (today the Victoria and Albert Museum), founded in 1852, being the very first – in which artists could study the hand-crafted masterpieces of earlier epochs.
Although the co-editor Carl Becker (1794-1859) commissioned various artists to make drawings of the historical originals forKunstwerke und Geräthschaften, the signatures on the plates show that most of the illustrations stem from the hand of artist Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck and he can therefore be considered as the work’s main draughtsman; considering that Becker died before the completion of the work, the most influential figure behind it was undoubtedly Hefner-Alteneck. Before his collaboration with Becker, Hefner-Alteneck had previously publishedTrachten des christlichen Mittelalters (Costumes of the Christian Middle Ages).
With their publication, Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck and Carl Becker gave expression to the 19th century’s revived interest in the art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. By selecting masterpieces from public and private collections, and reproducing them faithfully in pictures, they created a document of artistic quality in itself, which also provides evidence of works which have since been lost.
With this new edition, which includes a commentary, TASCHEN is making an important publication accessible once more, giving a glimpse of the treasure chambers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.This complete reprint was created on the basis of an original copy in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart.
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Carsten-Peter Warncke studied art history, classical archaeology, and literature in Vienna, Heidelberg, and Hamburg, and received his doctorate from the latter in 1975. He is professor of art history at the University of Göttingen.
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Decorative arts from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: the complete plates = Angewandte Kunst vom Mittelalter bis zur Renaissance. Carl Becker. Ed. by Carsten-Peter Warncke. [Transl.: Karen Williams .]
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine +. First edition thus. Folio (17-1/2" x 12-1/2"). 408pp. Index of locations and bibliography. Parallel text in English, German and French. Color pictorial dust jacket, spine lettered in gilt, over blind decorated & lettered gold cloth. Profusely illustrated wt. color plates (2, folding). A fine, as new copy with just a hint of dusting to the d.g. "Taschen. brings the European bibliographic past to vivd life." (Arts and Antiques, Atlanta) A fine reprinting of a 19th century book. [It] comprises reproductions of all the plates from C. Becker's Kunstwerke und Geräthschaften des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, a joint production with Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck that was originally published between 1852 and 1863 (Frankfurt am Main : S. Schmerber). The plates are provided with descriptive texts by Carsten-Peter Warncke./ Introductory essay by Carsten-Peter Warncke has title: Kunst im Bild : Hefner-Altenecks und Beckers Darstellung der Kunstwerke des Mittelalters und der Renaissance = Art in the picture : Hefner-Alteneck and Becker's presentation of the artworks of the Middle Ages and Renaissance./ "The copy used for printing belongs to the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart."/ Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-407) and index. Seller Inventory # 53390