Event Horizon: Early Modern Warfare and the Monumental Print
A lecture by Carolyn Yerkes (Princeton University)

When two technologies converged in the first half of the sixteenth century—artillery warfare and monumental printmaking—a new genre was the result. The monumental siege print was an experiment in how to depict distance between enemies as the defining condition of war. In this talk, Carolyn Yerkes explores a series of enormous woodcuts created in the German-speaking lands of northern Europe during a period of constant war, political turmoil, and religious strife.

An Early Modern World Lecture

February 11, 2026 at 6pm

38 West 86th Street, BGC Lecture Hall