Illustrations
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Description: A young man with thinning hair and piercing eyes is depicted in profile. Below him...
Figure 1. Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of Philip Melanchthon (Engraving, 1526). Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession No. 19.73.117.
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Description: A young woman in expensive clothing ornamented with multiple pieces of jewelry looks...
Figure 2. Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman (Painting, 1506). Image courtesy of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Identification No. 557G.
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Description: A middle-aged man with tousled hair and wide-open eyes is depicted in semi-profile....
Figure 3. Albrecht Dürer, The Master-Builder Jerome of Augsburg (Drawing, 1506). Image courtesy of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Identification No. KdZ 2274.
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Description: A knight in full armor, clutching a spear in his right hand, rides his charger...
Figure 4. Albrecht Dürer, Knight, Death, and Devil (Engraving, 1513). Image courtesy of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Accession No. 2916.030.
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Description: St. John is being boiled alive in a cauldron hung over an open fire. He has his...
Figure 5. Albrecht Dürer, The Apocalypse: The Torture of St. John the Evangelist (Woodcut, 1511). Image courtesy of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Accession No. 2013.013.002.
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Description: St. John squats at bottom right, literally devouring a book with a pained yet...
Figure 6. Albrecht Dürer, The Apocalypse: St. John Devouring the Book (Woodcut, 1511). Image courtesy of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Accession No. 2013.013.010.
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Description: A throng of people, many with palm fronds in their hands, venerate an apparition of...
Figure 7. Albrecht Dürer, The Apocalypse: The Hymn in Adoration of the Lamb (Woodcut, 1511). Image courtesy of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Accession No. 2013.013.007.
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Description: A small group of people at bottom left is awe-struck by the appearance, at bottom...
Figure 8. Albrecht Dürer, The Apocalypse: The Whore of Babylon (Woodcut, 1511). Image courtesy of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Accession No. 2013.013.013.
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Description: The four horsemen of the Apocalypse ride through the air, arrayed in a diagonal line...
Figure 9. Albrecht Dürer, The Apocalypse: The Four Horsemen (Woodcut, 1511). Image courtesy of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Accession No. 2013.013.005.
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Description: The twelve tones of the semi-tone scale are arranged in a circle, connected by lines...
Figure 10. Pythagorean tuning system, showing Pythagorean comma and similarity to pentagram. Illustration courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Contributor Cmglee.
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Description: Black-and-white photograph of an old-fashioned farm house, with a giant elm tree in...
Figure 11. The Schweighart farm in Polling, Thomas Mann’s model for the Schweigestill farm in Pfeiffering (Photograph, ca. 1920s, photographer unknown). Image courtesy of ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Thomas-Mann-Archiv, Accession No. TMA_1809.
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Description: Black-and-white photograph of a parlor with a vaulted ceiling and old-fashioned...
Figure 12. The parlor of the Schweighart farm, Thomas Mann’s model for the “winged-victory-room” of the Schweigestill farm in Pfeiffering (Photograph, taken prior to 1915, photographer unknown). Image courtesy of Ms. Tina Mayr, Bernried.