Lucas Cranach at last is coming into his own. After being considered by Melanchthon - and to our own day - as the least distinguished artist of the familiar German triad with Dürer and 'Grünewald', [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist
What rotten luck to be an artist born after Albrecht Dürer! Artists of the fifteenth century, especially printmakers, are forgiven technical inadequacies and creative shortcomings because Dürer had [...] Read More
Hans Holbein der Ältere
After long domination by Dürer's Nuremberg in art history, Augsburg at last is getting its scholarly due. The first signs appeared with the burst of research on Jôrg Breu by both Pia Cuneo (1998) and [...] Read More
lluminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe
The exhibition 'Illuminating the Renaissance' celebrates the flowering of Flemish manuscript illumination between c.1470 and 1560, a century in which illuminators achieved remarkable mastery of color, [...] Read More
The Spitz Master. A Parisian Book of Hours
After his death in 1416, Jean, Duke of Berry, was remembered throughout the fifteenth century as a patron of the arts. Readers of Froissart, for example, learned that Jean was fond of speaking with [...] Read More
Two Catalogues on Jacob van Ruisdael
Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2002. 788 pp, 328 color plates, 1112 b&w illus. ISBN [...] Read More