Book Reviews

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

The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700: Karel van Mander

By Marjolein Leesberg, edited by Huigen Leeflang and Christiaan Schuckman

Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 1999. 330 pp, 224 b&w illus. ISBN 90-75607-35-0

Review published December 2003

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

The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700: Cornelis Cort

By Manfred Sellink, edited by Huigen Leeflang

3 vols. Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2000.
Part 1: 279 pp, 290 b&w illus. ISBN 90-75607-27-X.
Part 2: 241 pp, 230 b&w illus, ISBN 90-75607-41-3.
Part 3: 295 pp, 226 b&w illus. ISBN 90-75607-41-5

Review published December 2003

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

By Edgar Bierende

Munich-Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002. 518 pp, 111 illus. (all b&w), ISBN 3-422-06339-0

Review published December 2003

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

By Giulia Bartrum

With contributions by Günter Grass, Josepsh L. Koerner, and Ute Kuhlemann. [Cat. exh. The British Museum, London, December 5, 2002 - March 23, 2003.] London: British Museum Press, 2002, 320 pp, 85 col. and 267 b&w illus. ISBN 0-7141-2633-0

Review published December 2003

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

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