Early Modern Period

0003 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, [...]

0004 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 [...]

0006 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, [...]

0007 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 [...]

0008 Susan Tipton, Diplomatie und Zeremoniell in Botschafterbildern von Carlevarijs und Canaletto

The article investigates representations of entries and audiences of European ambassadors and envoys within the context of early modern diplomacy. In the light of new archival material [...]

0012 Juan Luis González García, Charles V and the Habsburgs' Inventories. Changing Patrimony as Dynastic Cult in Early Modern Europe

Apart from a deep respect for the achievements of the Habsburgs, Emperor Maximilian I transmitted to his heirs a practical attitude towards their art collections. Pearls and precious stones were [...]

0015 Hubertus Günther, Die Salomonische Säulenordnung

As early as 1549, i.e. 50 years before Villalpando's famous Ezechiel commentary was published, Jacques Androuet Ducerceau introduced the Salomonic Order in his Exempla arcuum, a series of engravings in which [...]

0018 Cosmin Ungureanu, "Sia funzion la rappresentazione." Carlo Lodoli and the Crisis of Architecture

Similarly with the progressive turn from magic to sciences, architecture underwent a slow transformation starting with the last decades of the 17th century. Carlo Lodoli's thought [...]

0020 Günther Buchinger und Doris Schön, "… jene, die ihre hände hilfreich zum bau erheben …": Zur zeitlichen Konkordanz von Weihe und Bauvollendung am Beispiel der Wiener Augustinerkirche und Georgskapelle

The Augustinian Church in Vienna and the adjacent St. George's Chapel have recently been analysed for the first time according to structural archaeological and art historical criteria and these results compared with the plentiful written sources. [...]

0027 Ana Lavrič, O hierarhiji svetnikov na oltarnih nastavkih. Iz vizitacijskih zapisnikov ljubljanskega škofa Otona Friderika Buchheima (1641–1664) (Slovenian Version)

Vizitacijski zapisniki ljubljanskega škofa Otona Friderika Buchheima (1641–1664) razkrivajo pravilo za dispozicijo svetniških figur na oltarnih nastavkih. Medtem ko titularnemu svetniku pripada osrednje mesto v nastavku, [...]

0028 Ana Lavrič, On the Hierarchy of Saints on Altars. Visitation Records of Otto Friedrich Buchheim, the Bishop of Ljubljana (1641–1664) (English Version)

The visitation records of Otto Friedrich Buchheim, the Bishop of Ljubljana from 1641–1664, offer an insight into the rules governing the disposition of saintly figures in altar retables. The central place was accorded to the titular saint [...]

0033 Eduardo Lamas-Delgado, Quelques considérations sur le thème du présage de la Passion en Espagne. À propos d'une image "très mystérieuse de la Nativité", tableau retrouvé de Mateo Cerezo (1637-1666)

The cult of the Christ Child and his depiction with the Arma Christi expanded enormously during the 17th century, owing to the revival of mysticism spread by the new reformed orders [...]

0035 Ljerka Dulibić and Iva Pasini Tržec, New information on the 19th century provenance of Albertinelli's Old Testament cycle

Analysis of the correspondence of Bishop J. J. Strossmayer and his agents, and of W. Buchanan and his agents, has provided new evidence of the 19th century provenance of Mariotto Albertinelli's paintings [...]

0036 Sigrid Epp, Applausi festivi barriera – der Festumzug des Münchner Hofes zu Ehren Kaiser Leopolds I. im Jahr 1658

In 1658 a festive procession was held by the Bavarian Prince-elector to celebrate the new emperor Leopold I. Reconstructing such early modern court festivals is often difficult, if not impossible, since [...]