Painting on Light; Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and Holbein

by Barbara Butts; Lee Hendrix; Scott C. Wolf

• ISBN13: 9780892365791
• ISBN10: 089236579X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

The names Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein the Younger evoke the dazzling accomplishments of Renaissance panel painting and printmaking, but they may not summon images of stained glass. Nevertheless, Durer, Holbein, and their southern German and Swiss contemporaries designed some of the most splendid works in the history of the medium. This lavish volume is a comprehensive survey of the contribution to stained glass made by these extraordinarily gifted artists and the equally talented glass painters who rendered their compositions in glass. Included are discussions of both monumental church windows and smaller-scale stained-glass panels made for cloisters, civic buildings, residences, and private chapels. The subjects of these rarely seen drawings and panels range from religious topics to secular themes, including love, planets, hunts, and battles. Focusing on stained glass produced in Germany and Switzerland from about 1495 to 1530, Painting on Light includes drawings by Durer, Holbein, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Baldung Grien, Jorg Breu the Elder, Hans Burgkmair, Urs Graf, Hans von Kulmbach, Hans Leu the Younger, Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, Hans Schaufelein, Hans Weiditz, and others. This informative book is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Getty Museum from July 11 through September 24, 2000, and from November 7, 2000, to January 4, 2001, at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Author Biography

Barbara Butts was curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Lee Hendrix is curator of drawings at the Getty Museum.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Lenders to the Exhibition	xi
Acknowledgments	xii
Introduction Drawn on Paper--Painted on Glass	1	(16)
Barbara Butts
Lee Hendrix
Monumental Stained Glass in Southern Germany in the Age of Durer	17	(26)
Hartmut Scholz
In Honor of Friendship: Function, Meaning, and Iconography in Civic Stained-Glass Donations in Switzerland and Southern Germany	43	(14)
Barbara Giesicke
Mylene Ruoss
On the Artistic Technique of Glass Painting in the Age of Durer and Holbein and Its Conservation Problems	57	(256)
Peter van Treeck
Precursors
The Master of the Housebook Peter Hemmel von Andlau and the Strasbourg Workshop-Coperative
The Master of the Coburg Roundels Michael Wolgemut	67	(16)
Nuremberg
Albrecht Durer
Hans Baldung Grien
Hans Leu the Younger
Hans von Kulmbach
Sebald Beham
Georg Pencz	83	(106)
Augsburg
Hans Holbein the Elder
Hans Schaufelein
Hans Burgkmair
Jorg Breu the Elder	189	(44)
Strasbourg and Freiburg
Hans Baldung Grien
Hans Weiditz	233	(16)
Regensburg
Albrecht Altdorfer	249	(4)
Bern
Hans Funk
Niklaus Manuel Deutsch	253	(22)
Zurich
Hans Leu the Younger	275	(8)
Basel
Urs Graf
Antoni Glaser
Hans Holbein the Younger	283	(30)
List of References	313	(13)
Index	326