During the last years of the 16th c. the Venetian printing industry was still one of the major economic sectorsin the city, but production had dwindled to levels inferior to those of the middle years of the century because ...

In the increasingly polarized historiography of the printing industry of Venice, the workshop established by Giovanni Andrea Vavassore around 1515 offers a refreshing perspective on the role of the minor publisher in the ...

This paper shows how Francesco Sansovino’s visual strategies for presenting Dante’s Commedia contribute to our knowledge about the publication and reception of Dante’s works in the mid-sixteenth century. Current scholarship ...

Ein Kunstwerk der anderen Art. Anfahrt inklusive. In Thomas Hirschhorns Bataille-Monument schlägt das Herz der Documenta 11. So lautet jedenfalls das Urteil der meisten Besucher und kritischen Beäuger der diesjährigen ...

Der vorliegende Beitrag sondiert das historische, kulturelle, politische und gesellschaftliche Potenzial von Grenzen und Grenzräumen, wie es sich in Kunstaktionen und kuratorischen Strategien widerspiegelt. In diesem Kontext ...

This paper delves into the techniques and procedures of forgers in order to analyze their productions. A large variety of methods are implemented: the reuse of original supports, the mixing of original parts with faked ...