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Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print: Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’antica in Early Modern Augsburg examines the central role of print to local antiquarian pursuits and generation of a style all’antica in early sixteenth-century Augsburg, Germany. Working in the shadow of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Augsburg’s leading patrons, including humanist Konrad Peutinger and the mercantile Fugger family, documented local antiquities and commissioned new works of classicizing art and architecture, visually asserting a genuine, unbroken lineage to the city’s past. This study challenges earlier narratives by arguing that Augsburg’s artists and printers did not directly copy Italian Renaissance models but instead manipulated the imported visual vocabulary according to local concerns. The book brings together scholarly discourses on transalpine exchange, scientific advancements in printmaking, and reception of antiquity north of the Alps to offer a new understanding of art in early modern Augsburg and northern Europe at large.

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''In many ways, Carlisle’s book provides a fitting application of the turn to historical roots, outlined and theorized in Christopher Wood’s landmark Forgery, Replica, Fiction, a book which, significantly, also employs the term “German Renaissance.”[8] By historicizing her analysis in Renaissance Augsburg, she firmly grounds that larger phenomenon and defines its uniquely local meaning.'' – Larry Silver, Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews , February, 2025

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Rachel M. Carlisle is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Her research interests include transalpine exchanges, patronage and collecting practices, the reception of antiquity during the early modern period, and development of print technologies.

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