Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print

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.

''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

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: A “Renaissance” in Early Modern Augsburg Part 1: Documenting Evidence Chapter 1: Local Antiquities and the Romanae Vetustatis Fragmenta Chapter 2: Ancient Coins, Printed Portraits, and the Idea of Authenticity Part 2: Borrowing Sources Chapter 3: Transalpine Exchange, the Welsch, and the Deutsch Chapter 4: Archaeology of the Printed Page Part 3: Picturing a Local Past Chapter 5: Locating Antiquity in the German Landscape Chapter 6: Architecture All’antica Conclusion Bibliography Index