16th Century

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

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Drawings and Prints

By Nadine M. Orenstein, Manfred Sellink, Martin Royalton-Kisch, Michiel C. Plomp, Larry Silver, and Jürgen Müller

Edited by Nadine M. Orenstein. Jürgen Müller’s texts translated by Russell M. Stockman. New York, New Haven and London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2001. 336 pp, 108 color illus., 288 b&w illus. ISBN 0-87099-990-7; 0-300-09014-5, paperbound, ISBN 0-87099-991-5

Review published May 2002

Pieter Bruegel the Elder has been under a brilliant spotlight for some thirty years – a light which has faded away many traditional notions about this artist. A concentrated look at Bruegel’s drawn [...] Read More

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century