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Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta was born on May 7, 1948 in New York City. Son of Richard Kohns and Manette Rodrigues (DaCosta) Kaufmann.
(From the Renaissance to the end of the Ancien Regime, thi...)
From the Renaissance to the end of the Ancien Regime, this book presents over three centuries of European art in both its social and cultural background. Examining painting, sculpture and architecture, as well as applied media, the author traces in detail the artistic developments in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Ukraine and western parts of the Russian Federation, covering a range of artifacts and artists, many of which are being brought to light for the first time.
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(This work presents a survey of five centuries of draftsma...)
This work presents a survey of five centuries of draftsmanship from Central Europe. An interpretive and fully illustrated catalogue of one of the oldest public collections in the United States, it considers a wide variety of types of drawings. Works by well known masters Albrecht Durer, Johann Rottenhammer, and Johann Georg von Dillis, are included, but many surprises are also in store, among them comparatively rare sheets by such important figures as Karel Skreta, Wenzel Hollar, and Johann Holzer.
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(In this unprecedented book, the author chronicles more th...)
In this unprecedented book, the author chronicles more than three hundred years of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic Slovakia, and western parts of the Russian Federation. The collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe opened the doors to cultural treasures that for decades had been hidden, forgotten or misinterpreted. This book offers the most comprehensive introduction available to the arts of Central Europe during this period.
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( Central Europe occupies a prominent place in many realm...)
Central Europe occupies a prominent place in many realms of eighteenth-century culture. This volume is the catalogue of an exhibition of drawings, organized in 1989 by The Art Museum, Princeton University, which presents some of the little-known accomplishments of artists from the region of present-day East and West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Providing the first available survey of drawings of the period in English, the illustrated introduction to the catalogue considers the works in historical and artistic context. The book includes important drawings by artists such as Cosmas Damian Asam, Egid Quirin Asam, Matthus Gnther, and Adrian Zingg. Published for the first time are unique drawings by such important sculptors as Georg Raphael Donner and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. The fully illustrated catalogue contains 105 entries, many of which deal with major issues of art of the time and treat the drawings exhibited in relation to works elsewhere. Biographies are presented for all the artists exhibited.
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( The collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe...)
The collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe opened the doors to cultural treasures that for decades had been hidden, forgotten, or misinterpreted. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann looks at Central Europe as a cultural entity while chronicling more than three hundred years of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Ukraine, Lithuania and western parts of the Russian Federation. Kaufmann surveys a remarkable range of art and artifacts created from the coming of the Renaissance through to the Enlightenment. "Kaufmann throws considerable light on one of the more neglected and least understood periods in art history."—Philadelphia Inquirer "A wonderful book which does justice both to a formal analysis of the art and to an explanation of broader political and economic forces at work."—Virginia Quarterly Review "Important and stimulating, Kaufmann's study examines the cultural legacy of a region too little known and understood."—Choice "Peaks of the creative heritage which Kaufmann describes reserve their message—and their surprises—for those who visit them in situ. But invest in Kaufmann's volume before you go."—R. J. W. Evans, New York Review of Books
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( The School of Prague provides both a much-needed catalo...)
The School of Prague provides both a much-needed catalogue raisonné of painting in Rudolfine Prague and a significant reassessment of Renaissance art theory and practice. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann masterfully reconstructs the Prague court, discussing the "mannerist" art it patronized and the artists who were active in it.
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( Responding to ongoing debates over the role of humanism...)
Responding to ongoing debates over the role of humanism in the rise of empirical science, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann explores the history of Renaissance art to help explain the complex beginnings of the "scientific revolution." In a rich collection of new and previously published essays addressing conceptions of the mastery of nature, he discusses the depiction of nature in works of art, scientific approaches to understanding the world, and imperial claims to world control. This interdisciplinary approach elucidates the varying ways art, science, and humanism interact. This book contains a new assessment of the origins of trompe-l'oeil illumination in manuscript painting in response to religious devotional practices; an account of the history of shadow projection in art theory in relation to perspective, astronomy, and optics; an analysis of poems by the painter Georg Hoefnagel demonstrating how religious, philosophical, and political concerns impinge on questions of imitation; ground-breaking interpretations of Arcimboldo's paintings of composite heads as imperial allegories; an account of a poet-astronomer's collaboration with artists; an essay on "Ancients" and "Moderns" in art and science in Prague; and a new review of art, politics, science, and the Kunstkammer.
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Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta was born on May 7, 1948 in New York City. Son of Richard Kohns and Manette Rodrigues (DaCosta) Kaufmann.
Bachelor, Master of Arts, Yale University, 1970; Master of Philosophy, Warburg Institute University of London, England., 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1977.
Assistant professor art and archaeology, Princeton U, New Jersey, 1977-1983;
associate professor, Princeton U, 1983-1989;
professor, Princeton University, since 1989. Visiting professor University of Pennsylvania, 1980, Forschungsschwerpunkt Ostmitleleuropa, Berlin, 1994. Symposium organizer Princeton University Art Museum, University of California, Art Museum, Santa Barbara, 1982, 89, 90.
Guest curator Princeton University Art Museum,1982-1989. Consultant J.P. Getty Center, Malibu, Santa Monica, California, 1985, 86, 88, 89, 90. Adviser collection inventory The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1988.
Selector various fellowships, since 1985. Member science committee Council of European Exhibition, since 1995, others.
( Responding to ongoing debates over the role of humanism...)
(In this unprecedented book, the author chronicles more th...)
( The School of Prague provides both a much-needed catalo...)
( The collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe...)
(From the Renaissance to the end of the Ancien Regime, thi...)
( Central Europe occupies a prominent place in many realm...)
(This work presents a survey of five centuries of draftsma...)
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Adviser, negotiator International Research Exchange Board/American Council Learned Socs.-Polish Academy of Sciences agreements, 1982-1989, International Research Exchange Board/American Council Learned Societies Czechoslovak Academy agreements, since 1985. Member College Art Association, Renaissance Society of America, Veband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker, Wissenschaftlicher Beirat, Herder-Institut.
Married Virginia Burns Roehrig, June 1, 1974 (separated). 1 child, Catharine Roehrig.