"Generously sponsored by the Reiner Winkler Stiftung and Joanna Barnes, Daniel Katz, Stuart Lochhead, the Tomasso Brothers and Patricia Wengraf" Includes sculpture by Egid Quirin Asam, Johann Christoph Ludwig Lucke, and others Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index
Summary:
Around 1600, a new style of sculpture started to evolve and flourish in Central Europe and in the German-speaking lands. Dramatic wood and stone figures peopled the palaces, gardens and churches of Munich, Berlin, Dresden, D|sseldorf, Vienna and Prague. These great works of art are little known outside Germany and Austria, partly because their colour and vivacity are so astoundingly different from the sculpture that was being produced in Italy, France and elsewhere in Northern Europe at that time. They are overpowering, and amongst the greatest works of art produced in Europe in the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking book explores their history and conveys their visual power.
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