The Author’s Preface to Nils Büttner’s study of the Medici Series in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, the complete catalogue of Rubens’s oeuvre, conveys within its first two paragraphs the scope [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Allure of Rome: Maarten Van Heemskerck Draws the City; Maarten van Heemskerck: 1498–1574
The books under review here support exhibitions of works by the Haarlem artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) on the 450th anniversary of his death. With The Allure of Rome, spearheaded by Tatjana [...] Read More
Renaissance im Norden. Holbein, Burgkmair und die Augsburger Kunst im Zeitalter der Fugger | Renaissance in the North: Holbein, Burgkmair and the Age of the Fuggers
Along with Nuremberg, Augsburg was a leading center of art production in the early sixteenth century in Upper Germany, one that until recently in the scholarship has tended to play second fiddle to [...] Read More
Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print. Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’Antica in Early Modern Augsburg (Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700).
Readers of HNA Reviews are more than familiar with the odd term, “Northern Renaissance,” and its problematic link between Northern Europe and the classical revival that properly centered on Italy’s [...] Read More
Albrecht Dürer’s Afterlife (Northern Lights)
Poor Albrecht Dürer had not been in his grave more than a day before his body was exhumed by a group of enthusiastic local artists, eager to acquire some relic of “whatever of Albrecht Dürer [that] [...] Read More
Actors Carved and Cast: Netherlandish Sculpture of the Sixteenth Century
Netherlandish sculpture of the sixteenth century, as Kavaler notes, has taken a back seat to studies of Netherlandish painting – and to sixteenth-century German sculpture as well. This book forms a [...] Read More