Allison Marino presents her paper “Printing Circularity in Early Modern Nuremberg” at the 5th annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium on April 17, 2021. The annual Symposium event is hosted by the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in collaboration with Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Missouri. Marino is a M.A. student at The University of Texas at Austin and a 2020 graduate of Florida State University.
Abstract: By tracing cosmological depictions from Anton Koberger’s Nuremberg Chronicle (c. 1493) to those created using scientific instruments, I discover an interesting stylistic phenomenon: content rendered in a circular format. The Chronicle, celestial maps, and round aerial topographical views produced mid-century all depict an area within circular borders. I argue that artists in Nuremberg used this visual template to illustrate celestial and terrestrial realms to prompt viewers to associate such images with the intellectual capacity required to depict them on paper, thus also propagating Nuremberg’s advanced intellectual and political position within the early modern world at large.
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