The Devil at Isenheim: Reflections of Popular Belief in Gr�newald's Altarpiece [Hardcover]

Ruth Mellinkoff (Author)

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Hardcover: 100 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (Dec 21 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520062043
ISBN-13: 978-0520062047
Product Dimensions: 30.2 x 22.6 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 975 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,217,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( G-I ) > Grunewald, Matthius
- #65 in Books > History > Europe > Germany > Medieval

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Here is a convincing new iconographic reading of Mathias Grunewald's masterpiece, "The Isenheim Altarpiece," commissioned for the Antonite monastery near Colmar, Germany, before 1510. Mellinkoff identifies Satan amid the angels in the nativity scene and deciphers the meaning of other enigmatic details--the chamber pot, the belted bed, the oil cruet--through comparison with late medieval written sources and art works. As she demonstrates, these many details fit into a complex program dramatizing Christian salvation. An essay in book form, the brief text is abundantly illustrated with handsome color and black-and-white reproductions of the multi-part altar and related works. For specialized collections; this study launches a series devoted to examining individual works of art.
- Annette Melville, Research Libraries Group, Mountain View, Cal.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Matthias Grünwald's world-famous Isenheim Altarpiece ranks among the most powerful expressionistic works of the Northern Renaissance. Characterized by great emotional force, exquisite handling of color and brilliantly interwoven subtleties of Christian iconography, the multi-paneled altarpiece has remained the object of intense scholarly interest and the main attraction of the Musée d'Unterlinden in Colmar, France.
Ruth Mellinkoff offers an original analysis of the altarpiece, uncovering the late medieval popular beliefs that underlie its unusual visual content. She places its rich imagery within a tradition of Christian art, and stunningly, discovers Lucifer among the angels observing the Nativity.

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