Genie Ohne Namen. Der Meister Des Bartholomaus-Altars
Hardcover
2001 · Köln (Cologne), Germany
by Budde, Rainer und Roland Krischel
Köln (Cologne), Germany: DuMont Buchverlag, 2001. Hardcover. NF. Chambray blue cloth with silver lettering; glossy white dj with color illustration and blue lettering; 568 pp. with 154 color plates. Text in German. The Master of the Bartholomew Altar is regarded as "one of the great European artists of the late 15th Century" (Neil MacGregor, National Gallery London). If one knew the actual name of the brilliant painter, he would be named in the same breath as Stefan Lochner and Albrecht Dürer. Likely trained in Utrecht, the artist merged Dutch influences with local traditions in a unique way. Internationally renowned experts not only give insight into circumstances of the time, social network and operation of the master, but also show many ways in which he used the sister arts as sources of inspiration. The catalogue includes sections on Koln and the Niederrhein region in the 1500s, painting technique and workshop-operation, realism in the works of the Bartholomomaus masters, the catalogue itself with full-page plates and full-page descriptions opposite each plate and, lastly, the appendices. (Inventory #: 140963)