The Nuremberg Chronicle Art, Artifact, and the End of the World

Because the Nuremberg Chronicle is a text-image hybrid, it calls us to account for the interplay between the visible and the readable. We can think of the image as a kind of annotation to the text, but perhaps we might also think of it in the reverse, as we might with the drawings in an ethnographic field notebook, where images are often embellished with textual explanations in and around the drawings. We might come to think of the two modes, image and text, in more egalitarian terms, as two sides of the same coin...