The Art of Arts (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anita Albus
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Fine arts and history
- Time of Work: From the mid-fifteenth to the early seventeenth century
- Setting: Numerous sites throughout Europe
- Principal Characters: Jan van Eyck, Rogier van de Weyden, Georg Flegel, Nicholas of Cusa, Charles de Bouelles, Erwin Panofsky
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Arts
- Subjects: Seventeenth century, Painting or painters, Fifteenth century, Sixteenth century, Renaissance
- Locales: Europe
Anita Albus is a Munich-based author and artist whose previous works included Farfallone: ein Roman in Briefen (1989; butterflies: a novel in letters) and Liebesbande (1993; love bonds). The Art of Arts: Rediscovering Painting is a sprawling, encyclopedic work that moves effortlessly from careful aesthetic analysis of various Netherlandish paintings, to the chemical composition of oil-based paints, to Renaissance and early modern philosophical views of the human condition, to the effects of asinometropia (the condition of being far-sighted in one eye and...
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