16th Century

The Early Dürer

By Daniel Hess and Thomas Eser, eds.

Cat. exh. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, May 24 – September 2, 2012. Nuremberg: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums; London/NewYork: Thames and Hudson, 2012. 604 pp, 380+ illus., most in color. ISBN 978-0-50097-037-9

Review published November 2012

After four decades of professional study, I realize that exhibitions are cyclical, coming around every generation, whether for artists at the Museum of Modern Art (Pollock, Bonnard) or leading old [...] Read More

Geteiltes Leid: Die Passion Christi in Bildern und Texten der Konfessionalisierung

By Birgit Ulrike Münch

Regensburg: Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2009. 487 pp, 263 illus. ISBN 978-3-7954-2174-8

Review published November 2012

Geteiltes Leid brings together a number of fields normally discrete from one another: the Passion, word and image, confessionalization. With growing interest in the body, psychological formation, and [...] Read More

The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris – Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria

By Susan Maxwell

Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010. 234 pp, 75 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-7546-6887-9

Review published April 2012

Art historical publications in English are paying increasing attention to artists active in what is called Germany today. Life and works of the most famous early modern artists in Germany, especially [...] Read More

Pieter Bruegel

By Larry Silver

New York: Abbeville Press, 2011. 464 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-0-7892-1104-0

Review published April 2012

The art of Pieter Bruegel is enjoying a renaissance. This is not limited to art historians, for whom the Bruegel scholarship industry has been in high gear for several decades. The artist's appeal [...] Read More

Willem Key (1516 – 1568): Portrait of a Humanist Painter, with an Appendix to the Oeuvre of Adriaen Thomasz. Key (Pictura Nova, XVII: Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing)

By Koenraad Jonckheere, in collaboration with Gijs Key

Turnhout: Brepols 2011. 345 pp, ISBN 978-2-503-53678-1

Review published April 2012

In 2007, Koenraad Jonckheere published a study of the Antwerp painter, Adriaen Thomasz. Key, under Brepols’s “Pictura Nova” imprint (Adriaen Thomasz. Key (ca. 1545 – ca. 1589): Portrait of a Calvinist [...] Read More

Als in een spiegel: Vrede, kennis en gemeenschap op het Antwerpse landjuweel van 1561 (Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen, CXXXII)

By Jeroen Jos Maarten Vandommele

Hilversum: Verloren, ca. 2011, 406 pp., 72 ills

Review published April 2012

In August of 1561, the leading guild of rederijkers (i.e. rhetoricians) in Antwerp, De Violieren, played host to a Landjuweel (literally "land jewel," named after the silver prizes awarded on such [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century