Jörg Breu the Elder

Andrew Morrall is Professor and Chair of Academic Programmes Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, USA

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.