The Isenheim Altarpiece: God's Medicine and the Painter's Vision - Brossura

Hayum, Andree

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ISBN 10: 0691000875 ISBN 13: 9780691000879

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1994

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Andrée Hayum approaches Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece, now at the Musée d'Unterlinden in Colmar, as a structural and iconographic entity and restores it to its broader cultural context in the early sixteenth century. She interprets the altarpiece in terms of its hospital context, then explores how this polyptych functions as a system of communication, in relation to contemporary sermons and in response to an emerging print culture. The meaning and motivation behind the direct visual appeal of the Isenheim panels are considered within the liturgy and the sacramental economy.

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Winner of the 1991 Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art Association
"Andrée Hayum's sensitive and passionate book is not only a learned study but it is also a personal confession. . . . [She] has chosen a highly ambitious and broadly conceived approach to a complex and mysterious subject."--Willibald Sauerlander, The New York Review of Books

"Like the Isenheim Altarpiece itself, Hayum's text has the beauty of being accessible to two distinct, but related audiences: the interested layman and the serious scholar."--Diane G. Scillia, The Sixteenth Century Journal

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Book by Hayum Andree

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0691000875
• ISBN 13: 9780691000879
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 217