This beautifully produced book is a product of years of extensive research and study of a fascinating subject: the collecting culture in early modern Antwerp, with focus on the collections of artists [...] Read More
16th Century
Early Colour Printing. German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum
German printmakers of the early sixteenth century were the first to experiment with color printing, using multiple woodblocks for each tone to create composite images, often called “chiaroscuro [...] Read More
Dürer war hier: Eine Reise wird Legende; Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist; Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist. Catalogue Supplement
Dürer war hier: Eine Reise wird Legende. Peter van den Brink, editor. Aachen and Petersberg: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum and Michael Imhof Verlag, 2021. ISBN 978-7319-1136-4. 679 pp. 437 color ills. [...] Read More
Life of Lambert Lombard and Effigies of Several Famous Painters from the Low Countries (1572)
In his biography of Liègeois artist Lambert Lombard (1505–1566), Domenicus Lampsonius (1532–1599) laments the dearth of ancient literature available in clear, faithful translations from Latin. Until [...] Read More
Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklists. Flanders, 4: Addenda); Medium-Sized Panels and Fragments of Stained-Glass Windows before the French Revolution (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklists. Flanders, 5)
C.J. Berserik and J.M.A. Caen, Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklists. Flanders, 4: Addenda). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, [...] Read More
The Liefrinck Dynasty. The New Hollstein. Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700
In the history of European printmaking, engravers seem to get all the ink. In contrast, woodcut designers, let alone their block cutters, often remain obscure, and only during the past generation, [...] Read More