Renaissance Utterances

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

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...

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'...

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...