Christopher S. Wood is professor in the Department of German at New York University. He is the author of A History of Art History (Princeton); Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape; and Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art. He is also the author, with Alexander Nagel, of Anachronic Renaissance.
"""Wood presents not only a thorough examination of the role portraits played in 14th paintings, he provides a stellar example of art historical thinking.""---Marissa Moss, New York Journal of Books ""Impressively ambitious in scope and personably written."" * Choice *"