<div>In this groundbreaking and elegantly written study, Joseph Koerner <br>establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany. Opening up new <br>modes of inquiry for historians of art and early modern Europe, Koerner <br>examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer and Hans Baldung Grien <br>reflected in their masterworks the changing status of the self in <br>sixteenth-century Germany.<br><br>"[A] dazzling book. . . . He has turned out one of the most powerful, as <br>well as one of the most ambitious, art-historical works of the last <br>decade." --Anthony Grafton, <i>New Republic</i><br><br>"Rich and splendid. . . . Joseph Koerner's book is a dazzling display of <br>scholarship, enfolding Durer's artistic achievement within the broader <br>issues of self and salvation, and like [Durer's] great <i>Self-</i><br><i>Portrait</i> it holds up a mirror to the modern fable of identity." --<br>Bruce Boucher, <i>The Times</i><br><br>"Remarkable and densely argued." --Marcia Pointon, <i>British Journal of </i><br><i>Aesthetics</i><br><br>"Herculean and brilliant. . . . Will echo in fields beyond the <br>Sixteenth-Century and Art History." --Larry Silver, <i>Sixteenth Century </i><br><i>Journal</i><br><br>"May be the most ambitious of recent American reflections on the <br>mysteries of German art. His elegantly written book deals with the <br>fateful period in the history of German art when it reached its highest <br>point. . . . Offers deeper and more disturbing insights into German <br>Renaissance art than most earlier scholarship." --Willibald Sauerlander, <br><i>New York Review of Books </i><br><br><br><br></div>