Jorg Breu the Elder: art, culture, and belief in Reformation Augsburg

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Contents: Introduction: The Artist's Smile 1: The Artist and His Workshop, c.1498-c.1517 Beginnings: The Austrian altarpieces Economic background Work in fresco Panel painting: style and patronage The artist as designer Woodcuts Designs for sculpture Designs for glass The drawings for the Months of the Year Painters, glaziers and glass-paintings 2: The Turn Towards Italy Augsburg and the South The Aufhausen Madonna The Prayerbook of Maximilian I Image and verse The frescoes for the Augsburg town hall The organ shutters of the Fugger Chapel in St Anna, Augsburg The large wings The trip to Italy The small organ shutters Style and dating 3: Breu and the Reformation The course of the Reformation in Augsburg The Reformation and the arts The Chronicle Breu's Protestantism: A case study in Reformation piety Painting in the Reformation Woodcut illustrations The soldier as Unrepentant Thief Garlic, the Jews and 'the sleep of ignorance': St Thomas as exemplar of faith: humanist responses to the Reformation and the origins of the Emblem the St Ursula alterpiece: iconoclasm and the image question Breu and Zwinglianism The Holy Works of Mercy 4: The Deutsch and the Welsch. Neo-Classicism and its Uses Conclusion Appendix. Hand-list of surviving or recorded designs for glass and glass-roundel designs Index.