After a period of relative quiet, the last few years have seen a flurry of exhibitions of Northern European drawings across Britain, with more expected in 2026. These exhibitions have showcased the [...] Read More
Germany and Central Europe
Renaissance im Norden. Holbein, Burgkmair und die Augsburger Kunst im Zeitalter der Fugger | Renaissance in the North: Holbein, Burgkmair and the Age of the Fuggers
Along with Nuremberg, Augsburg was a leading center of art production in the early sixteenth century in Upper Germany, one that until recently in the scholarship has tended to play second fiddle to [...] Read More
Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print. Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’Antica in Early Modern Augsburg (Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700).
Readers of HNA Reviews are more than familiar with the odd term, “Northern Renaissance,” and its problematic link between Northern Europe and the classical revival that properly centered on Italy’s [...] Read More
Albrecht Dürer’s Afterlife (Northern Lights)
Poor Albrecht Dürer had not been in his grave more than a day before his body was exhumed by a group of enthusiastic local artists, eager to acquire some relic of “whatever of Albrecht Dürer [that] [...] Read More
Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe: A Silent Rhetoric
The Lamentation Group in St. Anne’s Church in Augsburg is unusual in many respects. At the center, the haunting, almost levitating Christ confronts the audience with his emaciated body. The emotional [...] Read More
Das Große Stammbuch Philipp Hainhofers. Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 355 Noviss. 8°.
Sabine Jagodzinski’s Das Große Stammbuch Philipp Hainhofers addresses one of the most significant extant alba amicorum (friendship albums) collections of signatures, inscriptions, poems, drawings, [...] Read More