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Byzantium: Judith Herrin.(Book review)
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November 1, 2007|
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Byzantium Judith Herrin Allen Lane 392pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 97807 1399976
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THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE had a spectacular career. When it was founded in 330, it was the greatest power in the western world. During the 1,100 years of its existence the empire was almost overwhelmed by Persians, then Arabs, and resisted attacks from Huns, Bulgars and a host of others till the Crusaders finally captured Constantinople in 1204. When the last Constantine perished on the walls of his capital in 1453, his state comprised one huge dilapidated ...
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Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...European art were painted by Albrecht Altdorfer" (9), the author attempts...forces the reader to consider Altdorfer's landscapes in a new way...thoughts, his resulting reading of Altdorfer's landscapes is highly original...
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Albrecht Durer
Newspaper article from: The Press
; Durer and German Renaissance Printmaking at the McDougall Art Gallery from March 19 to May 16 brings together a selection of prints by Durer and other major artists of his time, including Hans Baldung, Lucas Cranach, Sebald Beham, and Albrecht Altdorfer.
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Jorg Breu.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...Frueauf the Younger in Passau and Albrecht Altdorfer in Regensburg. And like Cranach...company of Durer, Cranach, Altdorfer, Burgkmair, and Hans Baldung...preternaturally fluid performances. And Altdorfer's stupendous Battle of lssus...
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'Centuries' of drawings; Gallery exhibits masters.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...new exhibit of graphic arts by Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt van Rijn...political spirit of their times. Albrecht Altdorfer's "Christ Nailed to the Cross...s "Untitled" (1992), Albrecht Altdorfer's "Christ Nailed to the Cross...
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A peek under the paint.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...such as Raphael, Bruegel, and Altdorfer - are featured in an exhibit...they enter is by German painter Albrecht Altdorfer. To curator Bomford, "Christ...drawings," Ms. Billinge says. Altdorfer did his underdrawing with brush...
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Peeking beneath the surfaceThe unsuspected facets of Renaissance masterpieces EXHIBITION / London
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...attached Hans Memling, Albrecht Altdorfer, Raphael, Giorgione. They...painter's changing intentions.Altdorfer painted ''Christ Taking Leave...their swaying movement, which Altdorfer did not attempt to convey in...
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Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...settings; Matthias Grunewald; Albrecht Durer; Lucas Cranach the Elder...Younger, Hans Baldung Grien, and Albrecht Altdorfer; Protestant iconoclasm and Roman...complex when we take up the work of Albrecht Durer. Dillenberger acknowledges...
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Britain faces loss of painting
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...the German Renaissance painter Albrecht Altdorfer will be taken out of the country...considered to rank alongside Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein. The...catalogued as "workshop of Altdorfer", was probably by the master...
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The national dilemma: to acquire or not
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Hoo in Bedfordshire. The first one was in 1981 when Albrecht Altdorfer' s ''Christ Taking Leave of His Mother'' entered...negotiation was conducted through Christie's.The Altdorfer was a sensational coup. It is second only to the...
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Masterpiece will go abroad unless art world raises pounds 2m
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; A masterpiece by the German Renaissance painter Albrecht Altdorfer will be taken out of the country by Rudolf Oetker...16th-century work, catalogued as "workshop of Altdorfer", was probably by the master himself. However...
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