16th Century

Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric

By Mark A. Meadow

Zwolle: Waanders, 2002. 176 pp. ISBN 90-400-9473-x

Review published November 2004

For over a decade, Mark Meadow has explored how the humanist study of rhetoric informed the early Netherlandish "period eye." His first publication on this topic, in 1992, investigated the structure [...] Read More

Leben mit Kunst, Wirken durch Kunst. Sammelwesen und Hofkunst unter Margarete von Österreich, Regentin der Niederlande

By Dagmar Eichberger

(Burgundica V, ed. by Jean-Marie Cauchies). Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. XIV, 527 pp., 139 illus., XII plates, 8 of which in color. ISBN 2-503-99129-7

Review published April 2004

Dagmar Eichberger's seminal study on Margaret of Austria, regent of the Low Countries (1507-1530), as a collector, has set a new standard in the study of Netherlandish court art of the Early Modern [...] Read More

Het Geheim van Gouda: De cartons van de Goudse Glazen

By Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Xander van Eck, and Henny van Dolder-De Wit

[Cat. exh. Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, Gouda, 16 March 16 - June 16, 2002]. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2002. 157 pp, col. and b&w illus. ISBN 90-5730-1679

Review published December 2003

Gouda's Sint-Janskerk's famous sixteenth-century cycle of monumental stained-glass windows was produced by several teams of artists over the course of about fifty years. Less well known than the [...] Read More

Willem van Tetrode, Sculptor (c. 1525-1580). Guglielmo Fiammingo scultore

By Frits Scholte

[Cat. exh. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, March 6 - May 25, 2003; Frick Collection, New York, June 24 - September 7, 2003]. Zwolle: Waanders, 2003). 143 pp, 120 illustrations, many in color. ISBN 90-400-87814

Review published December 2003

Late sixteenth-century writers on the arts in Italy and Holland alike extolled Willem de Tetrode as one of the preeminent European sculptors of his day. Yet because many of his most important works [...] Read More

The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700: The Muller Dynasty

By various authors

3 vols. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 1999.
Part 1: Jan Ewoutsz. and Harmen Jansz. Muller. Compiled by Jan Piet Filedt Kok, introduction by Harriet Stroomberg, edited by Ger Luijten and Christiaan Schuckman. 268 pp, 199 b w illus. ISBN 99-75607-34-2.
Part 2: Jan Harmensz. Muller. Compiled by Jan Piet Filedt Kok, appendix by Erik Hinterding, edited by Ger Luijten and Christiaan Schuckman. 329 pp, 308 b w illus. ISBN 99-75607-33-4.
Part 3: The Production of Illustrated Books. Compiled by Harriet Stroomberg, edited by Ger Luijten and Christiaan Schuckman. 339 pp, 620 b&w illus. ISBN 90-75607-38-5

Review published December 2003

The dedicated research of a team of scholars, these volumes cover four generations of the Muller family of printmakers and publishers, who worked in Amsterdam, from c.1535 through the seventeenth [...] Read More

The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700: Karel van Mander

By Marjolein Leesberg, edited by Huigen Leeflang and Christiaan Schuckman

Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 1999. 330 pp, 224 b&w illus. ISBN 90-75607-35-0

Review published December 2003

The New Hollstein volume on Karel van Mander I is, as Christiaan Schuckman notes, 'the first comprehensive monographic discussion of Van Mander's involvement in printmaking' (p. vii). As the prints [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century