[Cat. exh. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, June 9 – October 11, 2011.] Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2011. 48 pp, 32 illus. ISBN 978-1-906270-41-4
An old saying goes: if you find yourself surrounded by lemons, make lemonade. Although the National Gallery of Scotland owns a major Holbein, Law and Grace, ca. 1535 (see Hans Holbein the Younger, the [...] Read More
Peter van den Brink, in collaboration with Alice Taatgen and Heinrich Becker, Joos van Cleve: Leonardo des Nordens. Cat. exh. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, March 17 – June 26, 2011. Stuttgart: [...] Read More
Cat. exh. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, September 6 -December 11, 2011; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, January 17 - April 8, 2012. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press. 442pp, 102 illustrated entries. ISBN 978-0-300-17107-5
Susan Dackerman has done it again. Her first major print exhibition dropped jaws and opened eyes to an early graphic phenomenon known only partially but originally widespread: Painted Prints [...] Read More
With essays by Eliška Fučíková, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Joachim Jacoby, Karl Schütz, Joseph Leo Koerner, Lubomír Konečný, Bernard Aikema, and Isabella di Lenardo; with additional entries by Alice Taatgen, Christof Metzger, and Michal Šroněk. Translated by Kristin Belkin, Stefan Bartilla, Heinrich Becker, Markéta Ederová, and Jana Kuchtová. [Cat. exh. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, March 11 - June 13, 2010; Obrazárna Pražského hradu, Prague, July 1 - October 3, 2010; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, October 19, 2010 - January 9, 2011.] Aachen: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum; Berlin/Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010. 278 + 17 pp, 248 color and 15 b&w illus., 2 maps. ISBN 978-3-422-06972-5
There are many reasons why the painter Hans von Aachen deserves an international exhibition with catalogue. This artist from Cologne surprised Netherlandish and Italian contemporaries with striking [...] Read More
[Cat. exh. Kunstsamm-lungen der Veste Coburg, August 22 – November 7, 2010.] Berlin: Lucas Verlag, 2010. 316 pp, 193 illus. ISBN 978-3-86732-092-4
Dominated by the figure of Albrecht Dürer in his hometown of Nuremberg, German art of the sixteenth century is often discussed through its urban centers. Recently, however, the return to scholarly [...] Read More
Nijmegen: Stichting Nijmeegse Kunsthistorische Studies, 2009. 405 pp, 157 b&w illus. ISBN 978-94-90128-17-3
While it has been pointed out on numerous occasions how much Bruegel as a “second Bosch” owes to his celebrated predecessor, this book-length study breaks new interpretive ground about their [...] Read More