Renaissance Utterances

The Elector of Saxony’s wire drawing bench (1565) is an extremely complicated piece of art and technology which remains relatively unknown...

First half of the panel The Ore Mountains  were not only central to Saxony because of their seams of wealth, but they also provided a hu...

You know when you're racing against the clock and you can see a deadline waving a chequered flag? Of course this is the time that I...

Wood; the material out of which which the bulk of the bench is made and decorated. It is essential to look more closely at it, especially ...

I'm currently looking at details which is my favourite part of art; looking for any clues to build up a better idea of what is going o...

Where is the hunt? You know me, I relish a good connection. I went looking for a geographical connection between Elector August I in Dre...

What the heck is it? What I am about to describe has never been done so completely in English, as far as I know. The images were afforde...

Not distracted by the view. Oh no. When looking at art, the viewer should be encouraged to consider geographic issues, to enquire how fa...

The Wettin rulers’ journey from margraves to kings was not an easy one. The most serious period of instability occurred in the years prior...

In the heart of royal Dresden, along the Augustusstrasse , attached to the back of the Royal Mews, a 102 metre long ceramic mural dominate...

The wire drawing bench in Écouen is the only remaining object of its type. Although many plain wooden goldsmith's benches can be found...

What is Kunstgeographie? Literally translated, kunstgegraphie  means the geography of art. Whereas the history of art looks at art in it...

Time Passing This piece is a rather odd collection of thoughts. As a jigsaw of unintended connections, it works as a semi coherent whole...

Altdorfer 'Landscape' 1518-20 It seems you can travel miles in search of a certain historical figure, and not realise that usefu...

One of the unexpected highlights of the Royal Palace was the collection of prints drawings and photographs. On the top floor, like the pri...

Something tasteful today Today's objective was to find August, my Elector. It started out promising enough with the Royal Cabinet of...

I'm currently looking up at the sky. Reclining in the welcome silence of the hotel's quiet room with a cup of fruit tea. It...

This collection of essays is the eighth in the National Museum of the Renaissance series of specialist guidebooks . Covering fascinating e...

Leonhard Danner of Nuremberg (V&A ) There is something curiously and inevitably contrary about the figure of Leonhard Danner, the si...