Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
1 primary work
Book 5
Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany
by Jennifer Spinks
Published 1 January 2009
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.