“Make no small plans,” proclaimed architect Daniel Burnham, and he proceeded to develop the master plan for the city of Chicago. That could be the watchword for Till-Holger Borchert; his massive [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text Performance (Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages, 3)
The Dance of Death, or danse macabre, emerged as a literary and pictorial theme in Europe in the late medieval era. Combining powerful imagery with poetry, skeletons prance amongst a host of figures [...] Read More
Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge. Part 1, vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Austria (256 pp, 358 color illus.). Part 1, vol. 2: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands (296 pp, 389 color illus.)
The first two sumptuous volumes of Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge (IMC) have arrived. The series of catalogues covers, and will cover, medieval manuscripts in the Cambridge Colleges and the [...] Read More
Conrad Laib: Ein spätgotischer Maler aus Schwaben in Salzburg (Neue Forschungen zur Deutschen Kunst, 8)
Antje-Fee Köllermann's book on Conrad Laib is a magisterial study of his signed paintings and various other works that have been attributed to the artist over the centuries. While this study relies [...] Read More
Der Meister E.S. Ein Kapitel europäischer Kunst des 15. Jahrhunderts
Despite several important monographic exhibitions, notably Alan Shestack's five-hundredth anniversary exhibition of the artist's death (Philadelphia, 1967) and Holm Bevers's one-man show (Munich, [...] Read More
Cultural Exchange Between the Low Countries and Italy (1400-1600)
Following the 2004 CAA session “Cultural Exchange Between the Netherlands and Italy, 1400-1530”, Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, broadening the scope of the subject, edited a fine selection of contributions [...] Read More