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
Book Reviews
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
Ludolf Backhuysen (1630-1708): Sein Leben und Werk
Gerlinde de Beer's monograph on the great Dutch marine painter Ludolf Bakhuizen is a welcome addition to the strikingly limited scholarship on this artist. The foremost seascape painter in the Dutch [...] Read More
Kopstukken. Amsterdammers geportretteerd 1600-1800
This exhibition and its catalogue survey portraiture and portrait patronage in Amsterdam from the city's rise as the leading mercantile center of the Netherlands through its sedate quiescence in the [...] Read More