A major new study of Durer places the artist in his intellectual context.(Albrecht Durer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation and the Art of Faith)(Book Review)

From: Apollo | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: Steer, John | Copyright information

Albrecht Durer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation and the Art of Faith David Hotchkiss Price University of Michigan Press, 42 [pounds sterling] ($67.50) ISBN 0-472-113413-7

David Hotchkiss Price, Professor of Church History at Southern Methodist University, is a theologian and a historian of ideas and it is this that makes his contribution to Durer studies so valuable. He shifts the customary art-historical perspective on Durer's evolution, paying little attention to t...