Book Reviews

The Reception of P. P. Rubens’s Palazzi di Genova during the 17th Century in Europe: Questions and Problems

By Piet Lombarde, ed.

With contributions by Werner Oechslin, Piet Lombaerde, Frans Baudouin, Clara Altavista, Konrad Ottenheym, John Newman, Charles Hind, Claude N. Mignot, Ulrich Schütte, Joris Snaet. (Architectura Moderna, vol. 1) Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. 262 pp, ISBN 2-503-51301-8

Review published December 2003

The development of the architectural treatise in Renaissance Europe has become a popular area of research, drawing on scholarship in the history of publication, printing, reading, and a host of allied [...] Read More

Tessin. Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. Royal Architect and Visionary (Nationalmuseum Skriftserie, N.S. 16)

By Märten Snickare (ed.)

Stockholm: Nationalmuseum; Värnamo: Fälth & Hässler, 2002. 239 pp, 99 illus. ISBN 91-7100-671-0

Review published December 2003

The Millennium in Sweden also saw the start of several publications and of an exhibition on the Royal architect, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654-1728). To celebrate its tercentenary, the Bank of [...] Read More

Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany

By Jeffrey Chipps Smith

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. XVIII, 261 pp, 200 b&w illus. ISBN 0-691-09072-6

Review published December 2003

The effects of the Reformation have dominated scholarship on later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art in Germany. Both iconoclasm and the devastation of the Thirty Years' War created the [...] Read More

Het Geheim van Gouda: De cartons van de Goudse Glazen

By Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Xander van Eck, and Henny van Dolder-De Wit

[Cat. exh. Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, Gouda, 16 March 16 - June 16, 2002]. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2002. 157 pp, col. and b&w illus. ISBN 90-5730-1679

Review published December 2003

Gouda's Sint-Janskerk's famous sixteenth-century cycle of monumental stained-glass windows was produced by several teams of artists over the course of about fifty years. Less well known than the [...] Read More

Willem van Tetrode, Sculptor (c. 1525-1580). Guglielmo Fiammingo scultore

By Frits Scholte

[Cat. exh. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, March 6 - May 25, 2003; Frick Collection, New York, June 24 - September 7, 2003]. Zwolle: Waanders, 2003). 143 pp, 120 illustrations, many in color. ISBN 90-400-87814

Review published December 2003

Late sixteenth-century writers on the arts in Italy and Holland alike extolled Willem de Tetrode as one of the preeminent European sculptors of his day. Yet because many of his most important works [...] Read More

The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700: The Muller Dynasty

By various authors

3 vols. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 1999.
Part 1: Jan Ewoutsz. and Harmen Jansz. Muller. Compiled by Jan Piet Filedt Kok, introduction by Harriet Stroomberg, edited by Ger Luijten and Christiaan Schuckman. 268 pp, 199 b w illus. ISBN 99-75607-34-2.
Part 2: Jan Harmensz. Muller. Compiled by Jan Piet Filedt Kok, appendix by Erik Hinterding, edited by Ger Luijten and Christiaan Schuckman. 329 pp, 308 b w illus. ISBN 99-75607-33-4.
Part 3: The Production of Illustrated Books. Compiled by Harriet Stroomberg, edited by Ger Luijten and Christiaan Schuckman. 339 pp, 620 b&w illus. ISBN 90-75607-38-5

Review published December 2003

The dedicated research of a team of scholars, these volumes cover four generations of the Muller family of printmakers and publishers, who worked in Amsterdam, from c.1535 through the seventeenth [...] Read More

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