16th Century

Die Ehrenpforte für Kaiser Maximilian I. Dürer und Altdorfer im Dienst des Herrschers (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, vol. 95)

By Thomas Ulrich Schauerte

Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2001. 491 pp, 43 b&w figs., 22 detail plates, ISBN 3-422-06331-5

Review published April 2003

As one of the most active scholars on the art patronage of Emperor Maximilian I Habsburg, I rejoice in this systematic, thoroughly researched study of the ruler's most ambitious and encompassing art [...] Read More

Kein Tag wie jeder andere. Fest und Vergnügen in der niederländischen Kunst, ca. 1520-1630

By Silke Gatenbröcker and Andreas W. Vetter, eds.

[Cat. exh. Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, September 12 - December 8, 2002.] Braunschweig: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, 2002. 143 pp, 16 plates, 16 figs., 36 cat. illus. ISBN 3-922279-56-2

Review published April 2003

One of the wonderful things about exhibition catalogues in Europe is their combination of seriousness and scope. America is so obsessed with blockbuster exhibitions and mega-catalogues to accompany [...] Read More

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century