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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464176503321

Autore

Kress Berthold

Titolo

Divine diagrams : the manuscripts and drawings of Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558) / / by Berthold Kress

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26237-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (622 p.)

Collana

Library of the Written Word, , 1874-4834 ; ; Volume 34

The Manuscript World ; ; Volume 6

Disciplina

709.2

Soggetti

Christian art and symbolism - Germany - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Image (Theology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary material -- Introduction -- Paul Lautensack’s Life and Work -- Lautensack as Theological Author -- Lautensack’s Diagrams: An Introduction -- Lautensack’s Early Diagrams -- Lautensack’s Later Diagrams -- The Reception of Lautensack’s Works -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Catalogue of Drawings, Manuscripts and Printed Editions -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Places -- Index of Biblical References -- Index of Subjects -- Illustrations.

Sommario/riassunto

After the Reformation the successful painter Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558) dedicated himself to spreading revelations on the nature of God. Lautensack was besides Dürer the only German artist who wrote against the iconoclasts, and he believed that he as a painter could explain the images of Revelation better than theologians like Luther. He presented his insights in hundreds of highly sophisticated diagrams that display a wide range of material accessible to an urban craftsman, from the vernacular Bible to calendar illustrations. This study is the first monograph on this extraordinary man, it presents a corpus of his surviving works, analyzes his peculiar theology of the image and locates the elements of his diagrams in the visual world of the Reformation period.