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

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Introduction: The artist\'s smile
1 The artist and his workshop, C.1498-C.1517
	Beginnings: the Austrian altarpieces
	Economic background
	Works 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-painters
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 and the Reformation
	Woodcut illustrations
	The soldier as unrepentant thief
	Garlic, the Jews and \'the sleep of ignorance\': The Mocking of Christ
	St Thomas as Exemplar of Faith: humanist responses to the Reformation and the origins of the Emblem
	The St Ursula Altarpiece: iconoclasm and the image question
	Breu and Zwinglianism
	The Holy Works of Mercy
4 The \'deutsch\' and the \'welsch\': neoclassicism and its uses
5 Conclusion
Appendix: Hand-list of surviving or recorded designs for glass and glass roundels
Bibliography
Index