16th Century

Herri met de Bles: Studies and Explorations of the World Landscape Tradition

By Norman E. Muller, Betsy J. Rosasco, and James H. Marrow (eds.)

Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University; Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 1998. 188 pp, 15 col. pls, 141 b&w illus. ISBN 0-943012-25-2

Review published November 2001

This volume unites ten papers presented at a symposium at Princeton University, October 13-14, 1995, in conjuction with the exhibition 'Anatomy of a Painting: The Road to Calvary by Herri met de [...] Read More

Painting on Light. Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and Holbein

By Barbara Butts and Lee Hendrix, with the assistance of Scott C. Wolf

[Cat. Exh., J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Saint Louis Art Museum]. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000. 330 pp, fully illus. in col., with b&w comparative illus. ISBN 0-89236-579-X (paper)

Review published November 2001

Sometimes an exhibition arrives with the shock of a new recognition. Just as in the case of the wonderful 1995 New York exhibition of Netherlandish stained glass, The Luminous Image, produced by [...] Read More

Two Publications on Pieter Bruegel

By various authors

Review published November 2001

Jürgen Müller, Das Paradox als Bildform. Studien zur Ikonologie Pieter Bruegels d. Ä. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1999. 195 pp, 6 col. and 48 b&w illus. ISBN 3-7705-3191-4. ‘Pieter Bruegel [...] Read More

O Musica, du edle Kunst. Musik und Tanz im 16. Jahrhundert/Music for a While. Music and Dance in 16th-Century Prints

By Thea Vignau-Wilberg

Music and Dance in 16th-Century Prints. With English translation by Michael Robertson. Munich: Staatliche Graphische Sammlungen, 1999. 224 pp, 90 b&w illus. ISBN 3-927803-29-4

Review published November 2001

This exhibition catalogue brings together late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century prints with musical subject matter, drawn from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich. Its author, an authority on [...] Read More

Dürer and his Culture

By Dagmar Eichberger and Charles Zika, eds.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 255 pp, 87 b&w illus. ISBN 0-521-62037-6

Review published April 2001

While there is scarcely a shortage of scholarly publications focused directly upon the various aspects of Albrecht Dürer’s life and work – such studies had already reached gargantuan proportions prior [...] Read More

Dürer to Veronese. Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery

By Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister and Nicholas Penny

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. 317 pp, 385 illus., mostly in colour, ISBN 0-300-07220-1

Review published April 2001

This attractive volume presents the impressive sixteenth-century holdings of London’s National Gallery, offering numerous art historical perspectives from which to appreciate its works. The paintings, [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century