16th Century

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

By Susan Dackerman, ed.

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

Review published November 2011

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

Hans von Aachen (1552-1615). Court Artist in Europe

By Thomas Fusenig, et al., eds.

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

Review published April 2011

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

Apelles am Fürstenhof. Facetten der Hofkunst um 1500 im Alten Reich

By Matthias Müller, Klaus Weschenfelder, Beate Böckem, and Ruth Hansmann, eds.

[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

Review published April 2011

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

Bosch en Bruegel als Bosch. Kunst over kunst bij Pieter Bruegel (c. 1528-1569) en Jheronimus Bosch (c. 1450-1516)

By Matthijs Ilsink

Nijmegen: Stichting Nijmeegse Kunsthistorische Studies, 2009. 405 pp, 157 b&w illus. ISBN 978-94-90128-17-3

Review published April 2011

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

Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance: The Complete Works

By Maryan W. Ainsworth

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven/ London: Yale University Press, 2010. xii, 484 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-1-58839-398-2; ISBN 978-0-300-16657-6

Review published April 2011

In the history of artistic exchange between northern and southern Europe, Jan Gossart occupies a singular place. The first Netherlandish artist known to have drawn the antiquities of Rome, Gossart has [...] Read More

Flemish and Dutch Artists in Early Modern England: Collaboration and Competition, 1460-1680

By Mary Bryan H. Curd

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. 236 pp, ISBN 978-0-754-66712-4

Review published April 2011

In 1517, upon the death of Bernard Flower, the first Netherlandish glazier to serve at the English court as the King’s Glazier, Henry VIII chose the Antwerp-trained Galyon Hone as Flower’s successor. [...] Read More

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16th Century