Renaissance Utterances

  View from the theatre These are the first set of many notes taken at the Dresden Conference on the Cabinet of Curiosities in Contem...

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

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

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