Shira Brisman begins what is likely to become an important text for both the history of art and material culture studies with a declaration of what the book is not: “This is not a book about how [...] Read More
Germany and Central Europe
Dürer’s Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition
In a letter written from Venice on September 8, 1506, two of Albrecht Dürer’s garments said hello to the humanist Willibald Pirckheimer: “My French mantle greets you and my Italian coat also.” [...] Read More
Melchior Lorck. Catalogue Raisonné. Volume Five, Part Two.
In music history the curse of completing a ninth symphony as a harbinger of a death plagued composers after Beethoven, including Schubert, Bruckner, Dvorak, and Mahler. Working on the earliest Danish [...] Read More
Dürer to Van Dyck: Drawings from Chatsworth House
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
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