16th Century

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

Die Planeten und ihre Kinder. Eine Brüsseler Tapisserienserie des 16. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Herzog Albrechts V. in München (Studies in Western Tapestry, 3)

By Katja Schmitz-von Ledebur

Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. 166 pp., col. plates, b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-52354-5

Review published November 2010

Almost as soon as he succeeded his father, William IV (1493-1550), Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria (1528-79), cousin and in-law of the Habsburgs, transformed the Munich court into a center of patronage and [...] Read More

The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries (The Classical Tradition in Architecture)

By Christopher P. Heuer

London: Routledge, 2008. 298 pp, 118 b&w illus., 4 color pls. ISBN 978-0-415-43306-8

Review published November 2010

The Dutchman Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) is generally acknowledged as the ‘father of architectural painting’ or the progenitor of the art of perspective, a designer who utilized the tradition [...] Read More

Cranach und die Kunst der Renaissance unter den Hohenzollern. Kirche, Hof und Stadtkultur

By Elke Anna Werner, et al

[Cat. exh. Schloss Charlottenburg und Evangelische Kirchengemeinde St. Petri- St. Marien, Berlin, October 31, 2009 – January 24, 2010.] Berlin: Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz und Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009. 368 pp, b&w and color illus. ISBN: 978-3-422-06910-7

Review published November 2010

This impressive book breaks much new ground in the art and architectural history of Renaissance Berlin-Brandenburg. The Hohenzollern electors' territorial expansion, religious choices, and dynastic [...] Read More

Daniel Hopfer. Ein Augsburger Meister der Renaissance

By Christof Metzger, et al.

[Cat. exh. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, November 5, 2009 – January 31, 2010.] Munich: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009. 568 pp, col. plates, b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-4220-6931-2

Review published November 2010

The exhibition at the Graphische Sammlung, Munich, dedicated to Augsburg printmaker Daniel Hopfer (c.1470-1536) reveals the field's fresh appreciation for artists formerly perceived as 'derivative,' [...] Read More

The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print 1550-1625 (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series, 1)

By Walter S. Melion

Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2009. I + 431 pp, 157 illus. ISBN 978-0-916101-60-2

Review published November 2010

This ponderous quarto is in some respects both a summation and an extension of Walter Melion’s work of the past two decades, in which he has identified and analyzed instances of what he calls [...] Read More