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
16th Century
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
Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Karen Bowen and Dirk Imhof have written a major contribution to the literature on the Plantin Press in Antwerp, with special relevance for scholars of the history of printmaking. Imhof, a curator at [...] Read More