Lucas Cranach at last is coming into his own. After being considered by Melanchthon - and to our own day - as the least distinguished artist of the familiar German triad with Dürer and 'Grünewald', [...] Read More
16th Century
Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist
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
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
Die Architectura von Hans Vredeman de Vries. Entwicklung der Renaissancearchitektur in Mitteleuropa (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, 99)
The author presented her study of Hans Vredeman de Vries's 1577 treatise ARCHITECTURA Oder Bauung der Antiquen auss dem Vitruvius, as a habilitation thesis in Braunschweig in 2000. Part One, which [...] Read More
Goltzius & the Third Dimension
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
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