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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

Hans Holbein der Ältere

By Katharina Krause

Munich/Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002. 419 pp, 228 b&w illus., 20 color plates. ISBN 3-422-06383-8

Review published December 2003

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

By Thomas Kren, Scott McKendrick et al.

Cat. exh. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 17 - September 7, 2003; The Royal Academy, London, November 25, 2003–February 22, 2004. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003. 575 pp, 232 color and 153 b&w illus. ISBN 0-89236-703-2 (hardcover), ISBN 0-89236-704-0 (paperback)

Review published December 2003

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

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