Rubens kehrt zurück (Rubens returns). With this catchy phrase, the city of Neuburg on the Danube, one and a half hours north of Munich, promoted its new art museum dedicated to Flemish [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Christoph Amberger, Bildnismaler zu Augsburg. Städtische Eliten im Spiegel ihrer Porträts
Annette Kranz presents the oeuvre and patrons of Christoph Amberger in a meticulously researched and generously illustrated study that brings the Augsburg portrait painter into the mainstream of [...] Read More
Sehen und Erkennen. Albrecht Altdorfers religiöse Bilder
Truth in packaging. This book, based on the author’s 2001Habilitationschrift, delivers what its title promises. Beginning with a sketch of Altdorfer historiography as well as period religion, it [...] Read More
Jan Joest: Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des Reinlandes um 1500 (Schriften der Heresbach-Stiftung Kalkar, 11)
Growing out of her dissertation, completed in 2000 for the Technische Universität, Berlin, Schollmeyer’s book is a substantial addition to the literature on Lower Rhenish painting. Jan Joest is at [...] Read More
Krone und Schleier: Kunst in mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern
This vast and visually rich two-part exhibition necessitated multiple visits. The early material (made before 1200) was displayed in the Ruhrlandmuseum in Essen, where the exhibition borrowed the cool [...] Read More
Shifting Priorities: Gender and Genre in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting
The burgeoning scholarly literature on seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting has seen vigorous growth since the 1980s. Three issues repeatedly inform the discussion of Dutch scenes of daily life: [...] Read More