Item #006857 The Devil at Isenheim: Reflections of Popular Belief in Grunewald's Altarpiece. Ruth Mellinkoff.

The Devil at Isenheim: Reflections of Popular Belief in Grunewald's Altarpiece

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #006857

SIGNED and dated April 1989, with inscription to title page. California Studies in the History of Art, Discovery Series I. Full green cloth. xv, 109 pp. Copiously illustrated, with many illustrations in colour. Sunning to edges, else fine. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, joints and top edge, chip to foot of front flap at lower corner. Matthias Grunewald's world famous Isenheim Alterpiece ranks among the most powerful expressionistic works of the Northern Renaissance. Characterized by great emotional force, exquisite handling of color and brilliantly interwoven subtleties of Christian iconography, the multi-paneled altarpiece has remained the object of intense scholarly interest and the main attraction of the Musee d'Underlinden in Colmar, France. Ruth Mellinkoff offers an original analysis of the altarpiece, uncovering the late medieval popular beliefs that under its unusual content.

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