Duerer's Lost Masterpiece

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Using Duerer's art and its reception as her prism, Rublack ... shows us a 'German Renaissance' we have lost sight of. * Armin Kunz, The Burtlington Magazine * Ulinka Rublack's new book successfully combines a close reading of the sources for the life and work of Albrecht Duerer with a wide-ranging account of art as a luxury commodity at a time when the trade in luxuries was going global. * Peter Burke, Emmanuel College Cambridge * Ulinka Rublack masterfully recontextualizes Albrecht Duerer's lost Heller Altarpiece, it production, and its fate. Yet her fascinating account is equally about German material culture, the rise of artistic advisors and agents, notably Hans Fugger and Philipp Hainhofer, the emerging global marketplace, and discerning collectors in Bavaria and England. Rublack recenters German creativity and tastes within the broader movement of art, ideas, and individuals across Europe. * Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Kay Fortson Chair in European Art and Professor, University of Texas, Austin * A stunning achievement by a historian at the pinnacle of her craft-at once a sensitive portrait of Duerer's emotional life that allows us to understand as a whole his desire to show what he could do with and for art at a time of transformative change and conflict in German society, and a vivid depiction of the merchants and nobles locked in fateful embrace who fueled the burgeoning world of global commerce, awash in material things and exotica, and who made Duerer who he was both in his day and in ours. Quite simply a tour de force. * Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University * Ulinka Rublack's fascinating study reminds us of this rich interconnectedness of people, ideas, and the material world during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. * Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas, Austin, Historian of Netherlandship Art Reviews * Ambitious and impressive... a remarkable story. * Peter Marshall, Literary Review * [Duerer's Lost Masterpiece] lays out methodically, with academic brilliance, the marketplace, techno-aware basis of the 'Duerer Renaissance' and the artist's rise to immortal fame. With a glorious accumulation of detail, assiduous research...a deluxe book. * Philip Hoare, The Spectator * Illuminating... In [Rublack's] hands, the narrative of Duerer's success...becomes something far more nuanced... A novel biography of an artist. * Francesca Peacock, Prospect * An outstanding portrayal of the merchant as a creative agent and a remarkable contribution to the history of the European art market as a whole. * Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books * A rich cornucopia of the period, when art was joining exotic shells, potions, and unguents as an international commodity ... it has much to tell about how Duerer and his contemporaries lived. * David Platzer, New Criterion * Duerer's Lost Masterpiece, which analyzes that era minutely, is the product of over fifteen years of research in archives and collections...it is precisely that amassing and marshaling of detail that makes her book such an outstanding portrayal of the merchant as a creative agent and a remarkable contribution to the history of the European art market as a whole. * Jenny Uglow, The New York Review * This remarkable book by Rublack is among the most comprehensively informative studies on Albrecht Duerer in recent years. * Choice *