Until very recently, one of the most neglected of all foundational primary sources in European painting history remained Sandrart's Teutsche Academie (1675; Latin edition 1683), including a reliable [...] Read More
Germany and Central Europe
Michael Pacher: Zwischen Zeiten und Räumen
In German art, the question a "Northern Renaissance" and when (or if) it occurred usually centers around such turn-of-the-epoch figures as Albrecht Dürer and the magic year 1500. Moreover, dominant [...] Read More
Bella Figura: Europäische Kunst in Süddeutschland um 1600
Bronze sculpture of the late sixteenth century tends to be associated with Italy, specifically with the work of Giambologna, so an exhibition of bronzes originating mostly from southern Germany [...] Read More
Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
Made up of an established core and a changing array of international contributors, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär gathers every three years. Scholars present new research on early modern Germany, and [...] Read More
Georg Pencz. Künstler zu Nürnberg
If we consult received wisdom (I used Giulia Bartrum's reliable survey, German Renaissance Prints 1490-1550, 1995), we find several accepted facts about Georg Pencz (vital statistics given, c. [...] Read More
Fantastische Welten. Albrecht Altdorfer und das Expressive in der Kunst um 1500
I always thought that the term "expressive" was a modernist or twentieth-century concept, in which the depiction of figure types and formal elements conjured up a peculiar state of mind or conveyed [...] Read More