16th Century

Albrecht Dürer. Das Frauenbad von 1496. Eine Ausstellung um eine wiedergefundene Zeichnung

By Anne Röver-Kann

[Exhibition catalogue. Bremen, Kunsthalle, September 11 – November 4, 2001]. Bremen: H.M. Hauschild GmbH, 2001. 116 pp, 100 illus., plus text photos. ISBN 3-89757-128-5

Review published May 2002

Bremen’s exhibition celebrating the return of two of its Dürer drawings, missing from wartime storage in Schloss Karnzow since the closing days of World War II, opened on a day now considered fateful [...] Read More

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century