The Pictorialization of Dürer's Drawings in Northern Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuri

This book examines the unique phenomenon of the pictorialization of Dürer's drawings. Representative Northern European painters in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - such as Hans Schäufelein, Jacob Hoefnagel and Jan Brueghel the Elder - reproduced Dürer's drawings, from single motifs to whole compositions in brilliant colors. This publication discusses the character of Dürer's workshop, preferences for drawings in Renaissance Germany, questions about authorship and ownership around works of art and the reception and adaptation of the Northern Renaissance art in the Prague Mannerism. It also demonstrates how in the course of the sixteenth century the evaluation of Dürer's drawings in Northern Europe changed.

Contents: The Ober St. Veit Altarpiece and the Five Chiaroscuro Drawings - The Madonna in the Hall and the Epitaph of Lorenz Tucher: Dürer's Model Drawings - The Great Calvary and its Copies by the Leyden School - Rudolf II and his Enthusiasm for the Art of Albrecht Dürer - The Imaginary Competition between Dürer and Jan Brueghel the Elder.