Renaissance Utterances

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

I'm on the cusp of handing in my dissertation and to both my delight and dismay, I'm still finding potentially relevant interestin...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

This is part of a wider project that I am currently working on. I am about to start on the actual evaluation of what the National Museum o...

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

Le banc d’orfèvre It's time for a change topic wise. I have a summer project to do and guess what? I've chosen another awkward o...