Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, Albrecht Altdorfer (German, c. 1480–1538)

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Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, Albrecht Altdorfer (German, c. 1480–1538)
Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist — Albrecht Altdorfer (German, c. 1480–1538)c. 1517

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  1. principles of art history · heinrich wolfflin

    centrally, it gives the type of the sixteenth century in a specially strict version, which the north did not long retain. PAINTING 147 Bouts While in Italian art the most self-contained form is felt to be the most living, Germanic art, without even embarking on ultimate formulations, immediately presses into freer forms. Altdorfer surprises us here and there with a feeling so free that he hardly seems to fit into an historical order. Yet even he did not fall out of his epoch. If the Virgin’s Birth in the Munich
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