The New Hollstein volume on Karel van Mander I is, as Christiaan Schuckman notes, 'the first comprehensive monographic discussion of Van Mander's involvement in printmaking' (p. vii). As the prints [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700: Cornelis Cort
These and the following volumes reflect the Hollstein series' significant contributions to the study of late sixteenth- to early seventeenth- century printmaking, with catalogues that are definitive [...] Read More
Lucas Cranach d. Ä. und der deutsche Humanismus. Tafelmalerei im Kontext von Rhetorik, Chroniken und Fürstenspiegeln
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
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