Yerkes is now finishing a book called Siegelands, which explores early modern siege warfare as a form of transformation. In a series of essays on long-term conflict and its relationship to monumental printmaking, the book offers a new history of the city in sixteenth-century northern European art.

She is also working on Direct Impressions, a book that focuses on the relationship between architecture and experimental printmaking technologies from the sixteenth century to the present, particularly those techniques that use buildings and objects inscribed with texts as printing matrices, such as squeezes and rubbings.

With her colleague Bridget Alsdorf, Yerkes is writing a book about Jacques Callot, the seventeenth-century etcher who transformed printmaking with his technical innovations and artistic ambition. She continues to think and write about Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and is percolating ideas for her next monograph, entitled The Renaissance Military Architect.

Forthcoming essays

“Piranesi’s Monumental Words.” Monumentality. Eds. Inderbir Riar and Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Getty Issues & Debates. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.