16th Century

Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence

By Thomas P. Campbell

With contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Rotraud Bauer, Pascal-François Bertrand, Iain Buchanan, Elizabeth Cleland, Guy Delmarcel, Nello Forti Grazzini, Maria Hennel-Bernasikowa, Lorraine Karafel, Lucia Meoni, Cecilia Paredes, Hillie Smit, and Andrea Stockhammer. [Cat. exh. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 12 - June 19, 2002.] New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. 594 pp, 228 figures, many in color, with many additional color and b&w illus. ISBN 1-58839-021-7; Yale: 1-300-09370-5

Review published April 2003

This catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum's splendid exhibiti on Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence (March 12 - June 19, 2002) presents a major study of a spectacular and important [...] Read More

Jörg Breu the Elder. Art, Culture, and Belief in Reformation Augsburg

By Andrew Morrall

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. 281 pp, 10 color, 147 b&w illus. ISBN 1-84014-608-7

Review published November 2002

Although a relatively unfamiliar and little studied artist, Jörg Breu was a major figure in the leading economic center of Germany along with Dürer's Nuremberg. Breu presents many fascinating issues, [...] Read More

Three Volumes New Holstein: Schongauer, Amman, De Gheyn

By various authors

Review published November 2002

Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts 1400-1700; volume XLIX: Ludwig Schongauer to Martin Schongauer. Compiled by Lothar Schmitt, edited by Nicholas Stogdon. Rotterdam: Sound and [...] Read More

Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden

By Heiner Borggrefe, Thomas Fusenig and Barbara Uppenkamp

Ed. by Heiner Borggrefe, Vera Lüpkes, Paul Huvenne, Ben Van Beneden [Cat. exh. Schloss Brake, Lemgo, May 26 - August 25, 2002; Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, September 15 Ð December 8, 2002]. Munich: Hirmer, 2002. 397 pp, 500 illus. ISBN 3-7774-9470-4

Review published November 2002

In today's world Hans Vredeman de Vries (Leeuwarden 1526 - Hamburg 1609) would probably be much in demand as an 'in-designer', but in his own day he enjoyed a more diverse reputation: as painter, [...] Read More

Brueghel Enterprises

By Peter van den Brink (ed.), with contributions by Dominique Allart, Peter van den Brink, Christina Currie, Rebecca Duckwitz, Pascale Fraiture and Suzanne Harleman

[Cat. exh. Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, October 13, 2001 - February 17, 2002; Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, March 22 - June 23, 2002]. Amsterdam/Ghent: Ludion, 2001, 191 pp, illus., many in col. ISBN 90 55443891

Review published November 2002

Although there is no shortage of bibliography on the artist, public opinion has not been kind to Pieter Brueghel the Younger. From the time that Carel van Mander dismissed him in a sentence or two [...] Read More

Ut Pictura Politeia oder der gemalte Fürstenstaat. Moritz der Gelehrte und das Bildprogramm in Eschwege (Studien zur Kultur der Renaissance, 1)

By Heiner Borggrefe, Thomas Fusenig, and Birgit Kümmel (eds.)

Marburg: Jonas Verlag, 2000. 245 pp, 56 b&w illus. ISBN 3-89445-280-3

Review published May 2002

The authors of ‘Ut pictura politeia oder der gemalte Fürstenstaat’make another important contribution to the growing body of literature concerning Landgrave Moritz ‘the Learned’ of Hesse-Kassel [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century