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Becker, Decorative Arts from the Middle Ages to the
Renaissance
ISBN: 9783836505185
Autor: Warncke Carsten-Peter
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Rok wydania: 2011-05-25
Ilość stron: 408
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Format: 305 x 435 mm
Treasures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Eight centuries of European applied arts
When Kunstwerke und Geräthschaften des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (1852–1863) was
published, what purchasers in fact bought was a small printed museum of unusual treasures.
With 216 hand-colored copperplate engravings, the publication gives a comprehensive overview
of applied arts in Europe from the 9th to the 16th centuries. The objects presented comprise
furniture, metalwork, jewelry, tapestries, and works of bookbinding. Carefully selected
masterpieces such as the gilt Corvinus goblet, an enamelled saltcellar, and medieval ivory
combs are depicted, along with a decorative sword, now lost.
The editor Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was head of the Royal Cabinet of
Prints and Drawings in Munich and later director of the Bavarian National Museum. His work
helped influence the creation of new museums of art and design – the South Kensington Museum
in London (today the Victoria and Albert Museum), founded in 1852, being the very first – in
which artists could study the hand-crafted masterpieces of earlier epochs.
Although the co-editor Carl Becker (1794-1859) commissioned various artists to make drawings
of the historical originals for Kunstwerke und Geräthschaften, the signatures on the plates show
that most of the illustrations stem from the hand of artist Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck
and he can therefore be considered as the work’s main draughtsman; considering that Becker
died before the completion of the work, the most influential figure behind it was undoubtedly
Hefner-Alteneck. Before his collaboration with Becker, Hefner-Alteneck had previously published
Trachten des christlichen Mittelalters (Costumes of the Christian Middle Ages).
With their publication, Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck and Carl Becker gave expression to
the 19th century’s revived interest in the art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. By
selecting masterpieces from public and private collections, and reproducing them faithfully in
pictures, they created a document of artistic quality in itself, which also provides evidence of
works which have since been lost.
With this new edition, which includes a commentary, TASCHEN is making an important
publication accessible once more, giving a glimpse of the treasure chambers of the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance. This complete reprint was created on the basis of an original copy in the
Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart.
The author:
Carsten-Peter Warncke studied art history, classical archaeology, and literature in Vienna,
Heidelberg, and Hamburg, and received his doctorate from the latter in 1975. He is professor of
art history at the University of Göttingen.
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