Visual acuity and the arts of communication in early modern Germany

Contents

Intent and independence : late fifteenth-century object engravings / Allison Stielau -- Seeing Christ : visual piety in Saxony's Erzgebirge / Bridget Heal -- Johann Neudörffer's Nachrichten (1547) : calligraphy and historiography in early modern Nuremberg / Susanne Meurer -- Apprehending the macrocosm : the Universe cup of Jonas Silber and its sources / Andrew Morrall -- Lucas Cranach the Younger's funeral sermon as a Lutheran treatise on art / Ruth Slenczka -- A musical dialogue in bronze : Gregor Aichinger's Lacrumae (1604) and Hans Reichle's crucifixion group for the basilica of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg / Alexander J. Fisher -- The acute gaze of Argos : Enargeia as sinful vision and visual psychagogic technique in Bidermann's Cenodoxus / Anthony Mahler -- 'This charming invention created by the king' : Christian IV and his concealed music / Arne Spohr -- Dynastic botany : banyans, cedars, and palms as visual models in seventeenth-century genealogy / Volker Bauer -- Royal and Roman in the rebuilding of Berlin c.1700 / Kristoffer Neville.