Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Spinks, Jennifer

Presents an exmination of printed representations of monstrous births in German-speaking Europe from the end of the fifteenth century and through the sixteenth century, beginning with a seminal series of broadsheets from the late 1490s by humanist Sebastian Brant, and including prints by Albrecht Durer and Hans Burgkmair.

EAN

9781138663275

Publisher

Routledge

Published

21 January 2016

Pages

220