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The Isenheim Altarpiece: God's Medicine and the Painter's Vision

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The Isenheim Altarpiece: God's Medicine and the Painter's Vision - Hayum, Andrée
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Andr???e Hayum approaches Matthias Gr???newald's Isenheim Altarpiece, now at the Mus???e d'Unterlinden in Colmar, as a structural and iconographic entity and restores it to its broader cultural context in the early sixteenth century. She interprets the altarpiece in terms of its hospital context, then explores how this polyptych functions as a system of communication, in relation to contemporary sermons and in response to an emerging print culture. The meaning and motivation behind the direct visual appeal of the Isenheim ...

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The Isenheim Altarpiece: God's Medicine and the Painter's Vision 1994, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691000879

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The Isenheim Altarpiece: God's Medicine and the Painter's Vision 1990, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691040707

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