Beschreibung:

420 Pg. Ill. 20,3 x 3,2 x 26,7 cm. Softcover.

Bemerkung:

Contents: List of Illustrations -- I Introduction -- Upper Germany -- Events -- Settlement -- The Cities -- The Limewood Sculptors -- Antecedents -- First Generation -- Second Generation -- Third Generation -- II Material -- Limewood -- Chiromancy and the Grand Form -- Middle Forms and Surfaces -- III Functions -- The Image -- The Winged Retable -- Iconoclasm -- Secular Satisfactions -- The Market -- Custom -- Conditions of Trade -- The Guild Strategy -- Monopoly and Monopolistic Competition -- V Identities -- The Individual Style -- Gregor Erhart and Augsburg -- The Welsch and the Deutsch -- VI The Period Eye -- Shapes -- Persons -- VII Individuals -- Michel Erhart of Ulm -- Tilman Riemenschneider of Würzburg -- Veit Stoss of Nuremberg -- Hans Leinberger of Landshut. ISBN 9780300028294