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16th Century

Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist

By Giulia Bartrum

With contributions by Günter Grass, Josepsh L. Koerner, and Ute Kuhlemann. [Cat. exh. The British Museum, London, December 5, 2002 - March 23, 2003.] London: British Museum Press, 2002, 320 pp, 85 col. and 267 b&w illus. ISBN 0-7141-2633-0

Review published December 2003

What rotten luck to be an artist born after Albrecht Dürer! Artists of the fifteenth century, especially printmakers, are forgiven technical inadequacies and creative shortcomings because Dürer had [...] Read More

Hans Holbein der Ältere

By Katharina Krause

Munich/Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002. 419 pp, 228 b&w illus., 20 color plates. ISBN 3-422-06383-8

Review published December 2003

After long domination by Dürer's Nuremberg in art history, Augsburg at last is getting its scholarly due. The first signs appeared with the burst of research on Jôrg Breu by both Pia Cuneo (1998) and [...] Read More

Goltzius & the Third Dimension

By Stephen H. Goddard and James A. Ganz

[Cat. exh. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, October 7, 2001 - January 6, 2002; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, January 19 - March 16, 2002; Spencer Museum of Art, The University ot Kansas, Lawrence, March 30 - May 19, 2002]. Williamstown: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2001. 78 pp, 34 color illus., 46 b&w illus. ISBN 0-931102-43-X

Review published April 2003

This attractive booklet comprises a pair of essays by Stephen Goddard and James Ganz that address remarkable correspondences between the prints of Hendrick Goltzius and the bronzes of the Dutch [...] Read More

Barthel Beham. Ein Maler aus dem Dürerkreis

By Kurt Löcher

Munich and Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1999. 260 pp, 148 illus. (43 color, 105 b&w), ISBN 3-422-06261-0

Review published April 2003

In this attractively produced book Kurt Löcher, former curator of old master paintings at Nuremberg's Germanisches Nationalmuseum, explores Barthel Beham's artistic production. Arranged in roughly [...] Read More

Aus Albrecht Dürers Welt. Festschrift für Fedja Anzelewski

By Bodo Brinkmann, Hartmut Krohm and Michael Roth, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2001. 224 pp, with illus. (12 color), ISBN 2-503-5093-7

Review published April 2003

Dr. Anzelewski, author of the standard catalogue of Dürer’s paintings, who retired as Director of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett in 1984, celebrated his eightieth birthday on 17 March 1999, and was [...] Read More