Brill Divine Diagrams: The Manuscripts and Drawings of Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558): 34 (Library of the Written Word - The Manuscript World, 34)

This is the first monograph on the painter Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558) who explained his revelations on God's nature with hundreds of highly sophisticated diagrams that allow us a rare glimpse into the visual world of a Reformation period urban craftsman. Review "Lucid, precise, and well organized are not words that come to mind when confronted by Lautensack's obsessive and often hermetic refigurings of sacred Scripture. Yet all these qualities characterize this impressive contribution to our knowledge of one the Reformation's more remarkable offspring. [...] Kress follows this study in contextualization with a penetrating analysis of Lautensack's diagrammatic method. [...] In Kress's hands, Lautensack becomes, if not altogether comprehensible, at least graspable. Despite their dealing with post-medieval material, students of medieval diagrams will find many useful ideas in Kress's historically well-informed analyses." Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University. In: Medium Aevum 84/1 (2015), p. 142f. 0 "This immensely impressive work of painstaking scholarship will be of interest to all scholars interested in the art, theology, and religious practice of the German Reformation and in the broader trajectories of arcane knowledge in the early modern period." Andrew Morrall, Bard Graduate Center. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 1069-1070. Kathrin Müller, in Kunstchronik 68/5 (2015), pp. 234-240. Susanna Berger, in Print Quarterly 32/4 (2015), p. 426f. About the Author Berthold Kress, Ph. D. (2007) in History of Art, University of Cambridge, is Academic Assistant at the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute (London). He has published on Art and the Reformation and the Iconography of the Book of Daniel.