Published since March 20, 2018

Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte

ISSN: 2569-1619

About this journal

Founded by Wilhelm Waetzold and Ernst Gall in 1932, the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte is published quarterly by Deutscher Kunstverlag. As the leading international German-language journal of art history it is one of the foremost periodicals of the academic discipline world-wide. Scholarly articles undergo a double-blind peer review by two independent experts; contributions are accepted in German, English, French, and Italian.

The Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte is a journal covering the whole range of art-historical matters. It offers a space for contributions dealing with all epochs and subjects, and using all methodical approaches. Open to art-historians from all points of the compass, it should at the same time serve to retain the polyglot nature of the discipline.

Organisation

The editorial office of the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte is located at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. Since January 2020, Gerrít Walczak is Managing Editor.

The publisher delegates editorship to five Editors covering different areas of the discipline. For the sake of openness and plurality, Editors will generally serve for five years. The annual withdrawal of a member of the editorial board, and the subsequent by-election of a new Editor, assures steady change while maintaining continuity.

The Editors are nominated by an advisory committee, whose members are recruited from the institutes of art history at German universities, or operating outside higher education, and from the three German art historical research establishments at Florence, Paris, and Rome. Each institute or research establishment is invited to send a representative. Additionally, the board of directors of the Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker, the directorate of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and Deutscher Kunstverlag are represented each by a consultative member. All members serve on the committe for six years unless their term is extended.

Submissions

The Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte accepts only contributions that have not been published elsewhere. Submissions are welcome in German, English, French, and Italian. Translations of essays either previously published or about to be published as well as outtakes from books in the making will not be processed. The editorial office assumes that articles and reviews are not parallely submitted to other journals. Articles will first be assessed by the editorial office and the editorial board, then passed on anonymously to two external referees

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Volume 84 Issue 4

December 2021

Accessible November 29, 2021

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Aufsätze

November 29, 2021

On The Origin of the Milky Way by Peter Paul Rubens: Astronomy, Astrology and Mythology in Early Modern Europe*

Marcia Pointon

Page range: 451-482

Abstract

Painted in the final decade of his life, Rubens’s autograph work The Origin of the Milky Way defies interpretation. The artist was a contemporary of Galileo though attempts to evidence a meeting have so far failed. He had already painted a series of night skies and had many recent books on astronomy/astrology, as well as ancient texts, in his library. This is a painting full of plausible stellar bodies none of which quite fits into a recognised constellation. Nor does the image accurately accord with any mythological narrative. So, is the Milky Way here simply a pretext to depict Juno as Queen of the heavens? I propose that Rubens was a learned eclectic for whom Aristotelian views of the cosmos could meld both with contemporary earth-centred arguments about a providential universe and with new Copernican theories. Uniting his interest in pictorial space with newfound possibilities for understanding the cosmos, Rubens draws on the ancient Roman concept of sparsio, or abundance, with which he would have been familiar through his friendship with Hugo Grotius. Executed a few years after the fifty-three-year-old artist had married his fecund second wife, then aged sixteen, The Origin of the Milky Way constitutes a witty and profound meditation on female generosity within a framework of universal laws.

November 29, 2021

Connoisseurship and the Investigation of Materiality: Four “Rembrandt” Drawings in Weimar*

Thomas Ketelsen, Carsten Wintermann, Christien Melzer, Georg Dietz, Uwe Golle, Oliver Hahn

Page range: 483-518

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present the productive interplay of connoisseurship and material analysis when dealing with drawings by Rembrandt – or previously attributed to him – in the collection of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. This concerns the more precise determination of the drawing materials used and the reconstruction of the genesis of the drawings discussed. The material analysis allows us to decide whether and how Rembrandt’s inks can be used to determine authorship at all. The “material turn” in drawing studies thus intervenes in the discussion about authorship and opens up a broader production aesthetic perspective. No longer the “style” but rather the handeling becomes the decisive criterion for answering the question “Rembrandt, or not?”

November 29, 2021

“The condition most habitual with him, work”: David’s Portrait of Napoleon in His Cabinet at the Tuileries

T. Lawrence Larkin

Page range: 519-552

Abstract

In Napoleon in His Cabinet at the Tuileries (1811–1812), Jacques-Louis David designed a new portrait type wherein the emperor appears to have been up all night working for the welfare of his subjects, furthering the legend of an indefatigable administrator. This essay explores the relationship between Scottish patron and French artist in the fulfilment of a commission, the process of working through post-revolutionary consular and imperial modes of portraiture, the references to civil and military affairs meant to affirm public reports about the emperor’s administrative accomplishments, and the conversation about the relative value of status and money as compensation appropriate for the achievement of a new portrait identity. Despite the brilliant subtlety of David's conceit, Napoleon was content to continue to subsidize the overblown imperialist rhetoric of François Gérard and others.

Buchbesprechungen

November 29, 2021

Auf den Grund gegangen: Die fränkischen Gemälde des Germanischen Nationalmuseums

Katrin Dyballa

Page range: 553-559

November 29, 2021

Der Louvre von London

Jörg Zutter

Page range: 560-566

November 29, 2021

Öffentliche Angelegenheiten

André Rottmann

Page range: 567-570

Volume 84 (2021)

Volume 83 (2020)

Volume 82 (2019)

Volume 81 (2018)

Volume 80 (2017)

Volume 79 (2016)

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Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.578

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For information concerning the submission of manuscripts please contact:

PD Dr. Gerrit Walczak
Managing editor Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10
D-80333 München
e-Mail g.walczak@zikg.eu

Editorial

Editors:

Michael Cole
Burcu Dogramaci
Ann-Sophie Lehmann
Brigitte Sölch
Gregor Wedekind

Advisory board:

Andrea Gottdang, Augsburg
Wolfgang Brassat, Bamberg
Christian Freigang, Berlin
Kathleen Christian, Berlin
Annette Urban, Bochum
Georg Satzinger, Bonn
Elena Zanichelli, Bremen
Sylvia Claus, Cottbus
Barbara Welzel, Dortmund
Kerstin Schankweiler, Dresden
Valeska v. Rosen, Düsseldorf
Christina Strunck, Erlangen
Alessandro Nova, Florenz
Mechthild Fend, Frankfurt am Main
Hans W. Hubert, Freiburg
Claudia Hattendorff, Gießen, Lahn
Manfred Luchterhand, Göttingen
Margit Kern, Hamburg
Juliane von Fircks, Jena
Matthias Bruhn, Karlsruhe
Martina Sitt, Kassel
Klaus Gereon Beukers, Kiel
Ludwig Tavernier, Koblenz
Nadja Horsch, Leipzig
Matthias Müller, Mainz
Hubert Locher, Marburg
Stephan Hoppe, München
Ursula Ströbele, München
Barbara Paul, Oldenburg
Klaus Niehr, Osnabrück
Ulrike Heinrichs, Paderborn
Philippe Cordez, Paris
Christoph Wagner, Regensburg
Susanne Kubersky, Rom
Joachim Rees, Saarbrücken
Joseph Imorde, Siegen
Daniela Bohde, Stuttgart
Anna Pawlak, Tübingen

Managing editor: PD Dr. Gerrit Walczak

Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10
D-80333 München

e-Mail: g.walczak@zikg.eu

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Online ISSN: 2569-1619
Print ISSN: 0044-2992
Type: Journal
Language: Multiple languages
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)
First published: March 20, 2018
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year