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
16th Century
Cranach und die Kunst der Renaissance unter den Hohenzollern. Kirche, Hof und Stadtkultur
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
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)
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
Schilderen in opdracht: Noord-Nederlandse contracten voor altaarstukken 1485-1570
In recent years there has been a great upsurge of interest in the marketing of Netherlandish art. A critical resource for these studies is documentary information, especially that provided by [...] Read More
The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
In his Nova Reperta (c. 1590-1693), a visual repertory of the modern age’s inventions, Jan van der Straet used the same pictorial strategies to present innovations in alchemy, medicine and painterly [...] Read More