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'... Stewart deftly inserts her material into a number of significant art historical and interdisciplinary debates while making a series of clearly articulated and interrelated arguments pertaining especially to the reception of Sebald Beham's peasant festival woodcuts... in drawing our attention once again to Sebald Beham and in contextualizing his work in new ways, Stewart makes a convincing case, especially for her colleagues, that the career and production of this artist and entrepreneur are worthy of further analysis.' Historians of Netherlandish Art 'The author seamlessly integrates commentary from multiple sources - pamphlets, plays, legislation - with close readings of the various editions, states, and copies of peasant festival woodcuts to create for the reader an overall sense of the cultural contexts within which Beham's images were viewed.' Caa.Reviews '... the author has offered us a successful model of research on a variety of cultural objects, which one hopes may stimulate research on other fields of our heritage still awaiting further investigation.' Imago Musicae

... Stewart deftly inserts her material into a number of significant art historical and interdisciplinary debates while making a series of clearly articulated and interrelated arguments pertaining especially to the reception of Sebald Beham's peasant festival woodcuts... in drawing our attention once again to Sebald Beham and in contextualizing his work in new ways, Stewart makes a convincing case, especially for her colleagues, that the career and production of this artist and entrepreneur are worthy of further analysis. Historians of Netherlandish Art The author seamlessly integrates commentary from multiple sources - pamphlets, plays, legislation - with close readings of the various editions, states, and copies of peasant festival woodcuts to create for the reader an overall sense of the cultural contexts within which Beham s images were viewed. Caa.Reviews '... the author has offered us a successful model of research on a variety of cultural objects, which one hopes may stimulate research on other fields of our heritage still awaiting further investigation.' Imago Musicae

'... Stewart deftly inserts her material into a number of significant art historical and interdisciplinary debates while making a series of clearly articulated and interrelated arguments pertaining especially to the reception of Sebald Beham's peasant festival woodcuts... in drawing our attention once again to Sebald Beham and in contextualizing his work in new ways, Stewart makes a convincing case, especially for her colleagues, that the career and production of this artist and entrepreneur are worthy of further analysis.' Historians of Netherlandish Art 'The author seamlessly integrates commentary from multiple sources - pamphlets, plays, legislation - with close readings of the various editions, states, and copies of peasant festival woodcuts to create for the reader an overall sense of the cultural contexts within which Beham's images were viewed.' Caa.Reviews '... the author has offered us a successful model of research on a variety of cultural objects, which one hopes may stimulate research on other fields of our heritage still awaiting further investigation.' Imago Musicae

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Alison G. Stewart is Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, where she teaches Medieval and Northern Renaissance Art.

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