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“... might have had a similar long-lost origin). ‘In Panofsky, iconographies are rarely hostile,’ Joseph LeoKoerner notes in Art in a State of Siege, and themes of ‘peaceful accord’ abound in their shared field of Renaissance art, as in the friendship portraits exchanged by humanists such as Erasmus and Thomas ...”

“... with the ultimate: instead, it offered an alternative form of textuality, mere food for thought. Joseph Koerner’s scintillating, learned and eloquent book explores this shift by an extended investigation of the method and meaning of Cranach’s Lutheran paintings, especially the monumental altarpiece he painted for Luther’s own church, the ...”

“... history of self-fashioning that leads up to Facebook, but it doesn’t form part of the story that Joseph LeoKoerner tells in his tremendous analysis, The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (1993). Schwarz’s Book of Clothes isn’t mentioned there, and this makes Rublack’s account all the more ...”