Eine meisterhafte Betrachtung Albrecht Dürers und der deutschen Renaissancekunst Die preisgekrönte Kulturhistorikerin Ulinka Rublack erzählt vom entscheidenden Wendepunkt in der Karriere Albrecht Dürers. Und bietet einen faszinierendern Einblick in die Welt von Kunst und Handwerk in einer Epoche, die uns bis heute prägt. 1511 fasst Albrecht Dürer einen radikalen Entschluss: Nachdem er sich mit dem Frankfurter Kaufmann Jacob Heller wegen eines Auftrages zerstritten hat, hört er auf, Altarbilder zu malen, und wendet sich anderen Werken zu. Dieser Konflikt ist dabei wie eine Linse, durch die man die neue Beziehung zwischen Kunst, Sammeln und Handel in Europa bis zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg beobachten kann. Denn mit dem beginnenden 16. Jahrhundert wurde Kunst Teil eines wachsenden Sektors von Luxusgütern und vollzog eine umfassende Kommerzialisierung. Kaufleute und ihre Mentalität waren entscheidend für ihre Verbreitung und Entstehung. »Dürer im Zeitalter der Wunder« entführt uns in die Gedanken- und Gefühlswelten Albrecht Dürers und den Kaufleuten seiner Zeit. Anhand von originalen Schriftstücken, Briefverläufen und Bildern zeichnet Ulinka Rublack eindrucksvoll die Geschichte Dürers, seines Werks und des aufkommenden europäischen Kunst- und Handwerksmarkt nach. Ein völlig neuer Blick auf einen prägenden Künstler und seine Epoche.

Dürer's Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), when he stopped painting altarpieces after arguing with a merchant patron over payment. As an eloquent homage to Dürer ́s life, it brings us closer to the creation and meaning of his paintings than ever before. Dürer's Lost Masterpiece considers the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), his time and his legacy. It tracks the history of a crucial, and often overlooked, turning point in his career, when Dürer stopped painting altarpieces after falling out with the Frankfurt merchant Jacob Heller over a commission. The story of this painting, as Dürer ́s lost masterpiece, functions as a lens through which to view the new relationship developing between art, collecting and commerce in Europe up to the Thirty Years ́ War (1618-1648) when global trade and cultural exchanges were increasing. At the heart of the book is the argument that merchants, and their mentalities, were crucial for the making of Renaissance art and its legacy for modern art. The book draws on a decade of research, and uniquely draws the reader into the rich emotional worlds of three merchants each of whom typified the evolving relationship between art and commerce in that entrepreneurial, and often ruthless, age. It brings to life Dürer ́s determined fight for creative makers to be adequately paid and explores the big questions about how European societies came to value the arts and crafts that remain relevant to our time.

This volume tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), when he stopped painting altarpieces after arguing with a merchant patron over payment. As an eloquent homage to Dürer's life, it brings us closer to the creation and meaning of his paintings than ever before.

Dürer's Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), when he stopped painting altarpieces after arguing with a merchant patron over payment. As an eloquent homage to Dürer ́s life, it brings us closer to the creation and meaning of his paintings than ever before. Dürer's Lost Masterpiece considers the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), his time and his legacy. It tracks the history of a crucial, and often overlooked, turning point in his career, when Dürer stopped painting altarpieces after falling out with the Frankfurt merchant Jacob Heller over a commission. The story of this painting, as Dürer ́s lost masterpiece, functions as a lens through which to view the new relationship developing between art, collecting and commerce in Europe up to the Thirty Years ́ War (1618-1648) when global trade and cultural exchanges were increasing. At the heart of the book is the argument that merchants, and their mentalities, were crucial for the making of Renaissance art and its legacy for modern art. The book draws on a decade of research, and uniquely draws the reader into the rich emotional worlds of three merchants each of whom typified the evolving relationship between art and commerce in that entrepreneurial, and often ruthless, age. It brings to life Dürer ́s determined fight for creative makers to be adequately paid and explores the big questions about how European societies came to value the arts and crafts that remain relevant to our time.

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»Ulinka Rublack erzählt filmreif. Beim Lesen meint man, die Stimmen der Hauptfiguren sprechen zu hören.« Elisabeth von Thadden, Die Zeit Deutschland, 1615. Die Mutter des berühmten Astronomen Johannes Kepler wird als Hexe angeklagt. Vor der faszinierenden Kulisse einer Welt im Wandel zwischen Magie und moderner Wissenschaft beschreibt Rublack gleichermaßen fesselnd und bewegend, wie der Vorwurf der Hexerei Familien entzweit. »Rublack zeichnet in prägnanten Exkursen das Sittenbild einer Gesellschaft, die an der Schwelle zu einer vernunftgeleiteten, aufgeklärten Epoche steht.« Anja Leuschner, ZEIT Wissen

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Johannes Keplero è una delle figure chiave della rivoluzione scientifica del XVII secolo. Strenuo sostenitore del sistema eliocentrico, Keplero è noto soprattutto per la scoperta dell’ellitticità delle orbite planetarie e per la formulazione delle tre leggi che ancora oggi portano il suo nome. Meno noto è invece che nel 1615 fu proprio Keplero, al culmine della sua carriera scientifica, ad assumersi in prima persona la difesa della madre dall’accusa di stregoneria. Nel processo, che durò sei anni, Keplero condusse una lunga e coraggiosa battaglia per ottenere giustizia e per salvare la madre dalla tortura e dal rogo. Nell’Astronomo e la strega Ulinka Rublack ricostruisce con mano sicura tutti i dettagli di questo doloroso episodio della biografia di Keplero, facendo immergere il lettore nel difficile e volubile contesto in cui egli visse. Il risultato è una storia toccante e coinvolgente che, a partire da un dramma familiare, riporta alla luce qualcosa di più importante: il mondo di una piccola comunità luterana del centro Europa, segnata da profonde tensioni politico-religiose prodotte dalla Riforma protestante e alle soglie della Guerra dei trent’anni. Tra i tanti libri dedicati alla stregoneria, questo è indubbiamente il primo a documentare in modo convincente come la caccia alle streghe non riguardasse soltanto singole donne, bensì intere famiglie e comunità.

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The first survey to utilise the approaches of the new cultural history in analysing how Reformation Europe came about.