This remarkable monograph was produced to accompany the eponymous international exhibition of Vrel’s paintings on view at the Alte Pinakothek this past year. (The exhibition will reopen at the [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Renaissance in Franken. Hans von Kulmbach und die Kunst um Dürer
Visitors to the St Sebald’s church in Nuremberg are often struck by the colorful painted triptych epitaph for patrician Lorenz Tucher, which features a central scene of the Madonna and Child in a [...] Read More
Riemenschneider in Situ
Anyone who has had the singular pleasure of making a Riemenschneider cultural crawl to the small towns in Franconia where his giant altarpieces are preserved in situ will appreciate the benefit and [...] Read More
Grinling Gibbons and his Contemporaries (1650-1700): The Golden Age of Woodcarving in The Netherlands and Britain
Ada de Wit’s new book performs many services. Most narrowly, it is an insightful monographic treatment of the greatest decorative sculptor of the second half of the seventeenth century in both England [...] Read More
The Intimate Rembrandt
Our enduring attraction to Rembrandt and the vast art historical scholarship devoted to his works can be largely attributed to the artist’s boundless visual curiosity about everything he saw around [...] Read More
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