In ihren farbintensiven, raumübergreifenden Installationen, die auf Orte des Alltags rekurrieren, reflektiert und hinterfragt Sol Calero (*1982 in Caracas, Venezuela) Klischees und Stereotypen, die mit der lateinamerikanischen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art recently acquired a remarkable seventeenth-century German narwhal and ivory cup (fig. 1). It belongs to a group of at least sixteen ivory, narwhal tusk, and rhinoceros horn cups of ...

Historical sources, such as the account books of Renaissance bankers offer valuable information about relationship between artists and commissioners. Yet, it is not easy to use such sources in identifying works of art and ...

The paper deals with the oddities and peculiarities of critical history of a bronze bust representing Francesco del Nero (1487−1563), papal treasurer in the pontificate of Clement VII de Medici. Formerly in the ...

The following comments were adapted from a roundtable on Digital Humanities pedagogy at the 2018 Renaissance Society of America annual conference in New Orleans. Roundtable participants: Charles van den Heuvel, Rachel ...