Resumen de Nature and Nature's God: Landscape and Cosmos of Albrecht Altdorfer
Although Albrecht Altdorfer (1484-1538), like Albrecht Dürer, is often celebrated as a breakthrough artist who anticipates the modern virtuoso, his works remain predominantly religious narratives, situated in sacred wilderness groves. Moreover, the skies of Altdorfer’s works contain celestial phenomena (comets, coronas) that reveal the intimate nexus between heaven and earth, either as portents of catastrophe (associated with the Crucifixion) or as glowing celebrations (Nativity). Altdorfer’s known connections with learned astrologer-prognosticators, such as Joseph Grünpeck, link him with a wider humanist network, including Sebastian Brant, whose woodcut broadsheets also promulgated similar linkages between celestial and terrestrial events.
