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1991

Format:	Book
Author:	Eisler, Colin T.
Title:	Dürer's animals / Colin Eisler.
Publisher, Date:	Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1991.
Description:	xv, 369 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Summary:	"Dürer's Animals presents a pictorial zoo, a menagerie of beasts, taken from drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, etchings, engravings, woodcuts, and pageants Dürer created for the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian. This profusely illustrated book includes Dürer's designs for jewelry, armor, caricatures, astronomical maps, zoological freaks, light fixtures, and hieroglyphs."--Jacket.
Subjects:	Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 -- Criticism and interpretation. Animals in art.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-363) and index. Also issued online.
Contents:	The artist as animalier -- Our Lady of the animals -- Birds by his hand -- Wild in the woods -- Creatures hard-shelled and cold-blooded -- The lion, the saint, and the artist -- An artist's best friend -- Down on the farm -- Horse and rider -- In the stars and over the seas -- Classical creatures -- Beastly temptations, monstrous sins -- Poached hares and copy cats.
LCCN:	90021006
ISBN:	0874744083 9780874744088
Other Number:	22624512
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Control Number:	14908
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Call Number:	760.092 Durer

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