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May 20, 2009
Christopher S. Wood Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 416 pp.; 116 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780226905976)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.50

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For art historians a seemingly incongruous incident can sometimes trigger fresh thinking about what had seemed a familiar historical landscape. Such was the impetus for this study by Christopher Wood: a curious, late fifteenth-century case of apparently bungled connoisseurship. When Conrad Celtis, the celebrated German poet laureate, historian, and antiquarian, discovered a group of over-life-sized sculptures of draped, bearded men at a monastery in the wilderness near Regensburg, he published his find as representations of...