Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries

Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
Author: Albrecht Durer
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1775417182

This early travelogue gives readers a fascinating glimpse into European life and customs in the Renaissance and early modern periods. The book recounts author Albrecht Durer's travels in and observations of Italy and the Netherlands on the cusp of the sixteenth century.

Delphi Complete Works of Albrecht Durer (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Albrecht Durer (Illustrated)
Author: Albrecht Dürer
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 1113
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 178656498X

The greatest German Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer produced a vast body of works, including altarpieces, religious works, portraits, copper engravings and woodcuts. Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints and striking versatility. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Dürer’s complete paintings in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * The complete paintings of Albrecht Dürer — over 100 images, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order * Includes reproductions of rare works * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Dürer’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Hundreds of images in stunning colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings * Easily locate the paintings you wish to view * Includes Dürer's engravings and woodcuts - spend hours exploring the artist’s diverse works * The artist’s famous memoir of his travels * Features four bonus biographies - discover Dürer's artistic and personal life * Scholarly ordering of plates into chronological order Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting e-Art books CONTENTS: The Highlights SAINT JOHN’S CHURCH SELF PORTRAIT, 1493 SAINT JEROME IN THE WILDERNESS VIRGIN AND CHILD BEFORE AN ARCHWAY PORTRAIT OF ELECTOR FREDERICK THE WISE OF SAXONY THE SEVEN SORROWS OF THE VIRGIN SELF PORTRAIT, 1498 PORTRAIT OF OSWOLT KREL SELF PORTRAIT WITH FUR-TRIMMED ROBE LAMENTATION FOR CHRIST A YOUNG HARE ADORATION OF THE MAGI FEAST OF THE ROSARY ADAM AND EVE MARTYRDOM OF THE TEN THOUSAND MELENCOLIA I PORTRAIT OF MICHAEL WOLGEMUT THE FOUR APOSTLES The Paintings THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PAINTINGS The Engravings LIST OF ENGRAVINGS The Woodcuts LIST OF WOODCUTS The Memoir MEMOIRS OF JOURNEYS TO VENICE The Biographies DÜRER by Herbert Furst DÜRER by M. F. Sweetser ALBRECHT DÜRER by T. Sturge Moore BRIEF BIOGRAPHY by Sidney Colvin Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to buy the whole Art series as a Super Set

The Gayer-Anderson Cat

The Gayer-Anderson Cat
Author: Neal Spencer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This text contains a selection of the prints and drawings of Albrecht Durer (1471-1528). It includes some of Durer's best-known works including early figure studies, landscape watercolours, animal studies drawn from nature and his imaginative famous prints such as 'Adam and Eve' and 'Rhinoceros'."

The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500

The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500
Author: Clayton J. Drees
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2000-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1567507492

As part of a unique series covering the grand sweep of Western civilization from ancient to present times, this biographical dictionary provides introductory information on 315 leading cultural figures of late medieval and early modern Europe. Taking a cultural approach not typically found in general biographical dictionaries, the work includes literary, philosophical, artistic, military, religious, humanistic, musical, economic, and exploratory figures. Political figures are included only if they patronized the arts, and coverage focuses on their cultural impact. Figures from western European countries, such as Italy, France, England, Iberia, the Low Countries, and the Holy Roman Empire predominate, but outlying areas such as Scotland, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe are also represented. Late medieval Europe was an age of crisis. With the Papacy removed to Avignon, the schism in the Catholic Church shook the very core of medieval belief. The Hundred Years' War devastated France. The Black Death decimated the population. Yet out of this crisis grew an age of renewal, leading to the Renaissance. The great Italian city-states developed. Humanism reawakened interest in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Dante and Boccaccio began writing in their Tuscan vernacular. Italian artists became humanists and flourished. As the genius of Italy began spreading to northern and western Europe at the end of the 15th century, the age of renewal was completed. This book provides thorough basic information on the major cultural figures of this tumultuous era of crisis and renewal.

CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1991

CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1991
Author: Gail E. Hawisher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1993
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, offers teachers and researchers an annual classified listing of scholarship on written English and its teaching at the college level. The 1991 volume lists and annotates 1,925 articles, books, dissertations, and papers that, with few exceptions, were published during the 1991 calendar year. A group of 171 contributing bibliographers prepared the citations and annotations for the entries appearing in this volume. The CCCC Bibliography includes an index of authors and editors, a subject index, and entries cross-referenced according to subject matter. Considerably more comprehensive than other bibliographies in composition studies, the CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric draws upon a large group of experts in the field to aid teachers and researchers in sorting through a vast body of interdisciplinary material, making their work easier and more effective. Annotations accompany all entries in this volume. They describe a publication’s contents and are intended to help users determine its usefulness. Annotations are brief and, insofar as the English language allows, are meant to be descriptive, not evaluative—they explain what an entry is about while leaving readers free to judge for themselves the work’s merits. Most annotations serve one of three functions: they present the document’s thesis, main argument, or major research finding; they describe the work’s major organizational divisions; or they indicate the purpose or scope of the work. The subject index lists most of the topics discussed in the works cited in this volume. Consulting the Subject Index will help users locate sections and subsections containing large numbers of entries addressing the same topic. Each document is cited and annotated only once under one of the five major sections of the CCCC Bibliography. Each entry, however, receives an "entry number" so that cross-references to other sections are possible. This feature is especially useful because much scholarship in composition and rhetoric is interdisciplinary in nature. Cross-references appear as a listing of entry numbers, preceded by "See also," found at the end of each subsection. Entries appear under five major categories: bibliographies and checklists; theory and research; teacher education, administration, and social roles; curriculum; and testing, measurement, and evaluation. Although the CCCC Bibliography excludes master’s theses, textbooks, computer software, and book reviews from its coverage, it furnishes citations to review essays, articles appearing in some 220 journals, scholarly monographs and essay collections, dissertations abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts International, and selected documents and conference materials available through ERIC.

Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German

Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German
Author: Rosina Lippi-Green
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 165
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027236224

This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic, social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in the texts. Over 70,000 tokens of variable consonants sets were analyzed, using network analysis as an alternate approach to quantification of relevant social identities, which allowed focus on individual behavior without discarding the analysis of group behaviors. The study provides evidence that consonantal variation in early modern written texts is not random. To a surprising degree, it is possible to account for the structured heterogeneity in the writings studied by using methodologies established for spoken language in modern day communities. Like spoken languages, variation precedes change in the written language, and again like spoken language, not all variation is followed by change. That is, while variation cannot always be demonstrated to be structured, much of it is clearly and reliably attributable to the same complex of linguistic, social and stylistic factors which shape the structured heterogeneity of spoken languages of our own time. Of particular importance is the quantification of an individual's relationship to an emerging ideology of language standardization, and the way that relationship interacts with written language variation.