The Artist as Reader: On Education and Non-Education of Early Modern Artists

Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists' education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves

About the author

Heiko Damm is a research assistant at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He received his PhD in Art history from the Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on "Santi di Tito (1536-1603) und die Reform des Altarbildes in Florenz."

Michael Thimann (PhD Freie Universität Berlin, 2000) holds a Full-Professorship for the History of Art at the University of Passau (Germany). Among his research foci are artistic knowledge and the education of artists from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and the reception of Ovidian mythology in the early modern period

Claus Zittel, Ph.D. (1999) in Philosophy, teaches German literature and philosophy at the Universities of Berlin (Freie Universität), Frankfurt am Main, and Olsztyn (Poland). He is Member of the Editorial Board of "Intersections". He has published extensively on Cultural History of Science, Literature and Knowledge, including "Theatrum philosophicum. Descartes und die Rolle ästhetischer Formen in der Wissenschaft (2009)".

Product details

• Assisted by: Heiko Damm (Editor), Michael Thimann (Editor), Claus Zittel (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2012
• EAN: 9789004242234
• ISBN: 978-90-04-24223-4
• No. of pages: 562
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 1008 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies