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Artists as Tricksters: Resourceful Artists of the German Renaissance https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.119158 Guan, Luming Marr, Alexander Comic and entertaining chapbooks from late-medieval Germany, such as Till Eulenspiegel, often featured clever and cunning protagonists who practiced trickery and subverted social norms. This character of the trickster—as this dissertation reveals—was also a major identity deliberately cultivated by many German and Swiss artists of the early sixteenth century, who invented pictorial tricks or parodied traditional iconography to contrive scandals and disorient their audiences. This dissertation draws upon this cultural and social phenomenon of the trickster to analyze works by German artists from the first two decades of the sixteenth century, using contexts from contemporary literature, religious practices, and folklore to parse the often proclaimed but insufficiently explained “eccentricity” of German art from the period. University of Cambridge 2024-12-01 Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Cambridge Trust (Cambridge International Scholarship); Diamonstein-Spievogel Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints Department; Research Fellowship at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/385626 controlled.access https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/fb0564f2-efd9-46f2-86f6-ebd10235192b/download 246ab21d2d67605aba8f73886b50ea9d https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/4c7543d6-779b-407e-912e-ba172f90662d/download 87eda9de84448d1f82354d60eee3eb5f http://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/allrightsreserved German Renaissance Renaissance Art Trickster