Translating Nature into Art

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Statement About Orthography

Introduction: Holbein’s Reformation of Art

1 Holbein and the Basel Reformation

2 Choosing Styles

3 Seeing Christ

4 Judging Appearances

5 Translating Nature into Art

Conclusion: Noli me tangere

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“[Nuechterlein’s] arguments throughout are fresh, insightful, thoroughly researched, and persuasively and eloquently set forth. Sixteenth-century scholars, both in the field of art history and beyond, will find rich stimulation in this welcome new work.”

—Bobbi Dykema, Sixteenth Century Journal