About the Author

Christopher Wood is professor of art history at Yale University. He is the author of Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"A remarkably rich, learned, and ingeniously argued history of referential confusion, error, forgery, and fraud in the age before fictionality. I am utterly astonished by the ambition of this book, its synthetic and revisionist daring, and the analytical brilliance Christopher Wood displays throughout in pursuing his theory and its truly far-reaching implications." - Mitchell Merback, author of The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel"