2010

Michèle Hannoosh, Histoire d'une édition: le Journal de Delacroix

Delacroix's Journal is one of the most important works in the literature of art history – a primary source on nineteenth-century France, an extraordinary reflexion on aesthetics, and a great work of literature in its own right. The new critical edition [...]

Manuel Weinberger, Verschollen geglaubtes Planmaterial von Balthasar Neumann ...

The article deals with 31 plans in the cartographic collection of the Austrian National Library. The drawings, rendering as yet unknown information on the blueprints of the residences of Bamberg, Mergentheim, [...]

Maria Poprzęcka, A Picture behind Glass

The paper considers the singular situation of reception occasioned by a painting shielded with a reflective pane of glass. The reflections in the glass dramatically break the cohesion of the painting and [...]

Christien Melzer, Zur Vorgeschichte des Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinetts

Though the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett was properly established only in 1720, the electoral Saxon Kunstkammer and library in Dresden included a collection of prints and drawings from their very beginnings in the mid-16th century. The article focuses on [...]

Peter Stewart, Geographies of Provincialism in Roman Sculpture

Focusing on Roman Britain but using examples across the empire, this article examines the relevance of geography to the form and distribution of "provincialized" classical imagery in the Roman period. [...]

Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Feuereisen im Dienst politischer Propaganda von Burgund bis Habsburg

Since the reign of Philip the Good, the combination of fire-iron, flint and fire has been used in the Duchy of Burgundy for symbolic purposes. On the founding of his Order of the Golden Fleece in the year 1430, [...]

Fritz Koreny, Ein unbekanntes Meisterwerk altdeutscher Glaskunst: Hans Wertingers gläserne Hostienschale von 1498

This hitherto unknown glass paten with églomisé painting, dated 1498 and measuring 36 cm in diameter, depicts the meeting of Abraham and Melchisedek. The painting can be attributed to Hans Wertinger [...]