Book Reviews

Sinn und Sinnlichkeit. Das Flämische Stilleben: 1550-1680

By Karl Schütz, Ute Kleinmann, Konrad Renger, Alexander Wied, Arnout Balis, Stephan Brakensiek, Uwe Wieczorek, Klaus Ertz and Wolfgang Prohaska

[Cat. exh. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, March 18 - July 21, 2002; Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen, Villa Hügel, Essen, September 1 - December 8, 2002.] Lingen: Luca Verlag, 2002. 402 pp, ISBN 3-932641-49-4

Review published April 2003

My first impression of the exhibition, which I saw in Essen, was that it was unusually large and impressive for a thematically-focused show (126 works). It comprised eleven sections correspond ing to [...] Read More

Die Architectura von Hans Vredeman de Vries. Entwicklung der Renaissancearchitektur in Mitteleuropa (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, 99)

By Petra Sophia Zimmermann

Munich/Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002. 262 pp, 90 illus., 44 pls. ISBN 3-422-06370-6

Review published April 2003

The author presented her study of Hans Vredeman de Vries's 1577 treatise ARCHITECTURA Oder Bauung der Antiquen auss dem Vitruvius, as a habilitation thesis in Braunschweig in 2000. Part One, which [...] Read More

Goltzius & the Third Dimension

By Stephen H. Goddard and James A. Ganz

[Cat. exh. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, October 7, 2001 - January 6, 2002; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, January 19 - March 16, 2002; Spencer Museum of Art, The University ot Kansas, Lawrence, March 30 - May 19, 2002]. Williamstown: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2001. 78 pp, 34 color illus., 46 b&w illus. ISBN 0-931102-43-X

Review published April 2003

This attractive booklet comprises a pair of essays by Stephen Goddard and James Ganz that address remarkable correspondences between the prints of Hendrick Goltzius and the bronzes of the Dutch [...] Read More

Barthel Beham. Ein Maler aus dem Dürerkreis

By Kurt Löcher

Munich and Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1999. 260 pp, 148 illus. (43 color, 105 b&w), ISBN 3-422-06261-0

Review published April 2003

In this attractively produced book Kurt Löcher, former curator of old master paintings at Nuremberg's Germanisches Nationalmuseum, explores Barthel Beham's artistic production. Arranged in roughly [...] Read More

Aus Albrecht Dürers Welt. Festschrift für Fedja Anzelewski

By Bodo Brinkmann, Hartmut Krohm and Michael Roth, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2001. 224 pp, with illus. (12 color), ISBN 2-503-5093-7

Review published April 2003

Dr. Anzelewski, author of the standard catalogue of Dürer’s paintings, who retired as Director of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett in 1984, celebrated his eightieth birthday on 17 March 1999, and was [...] Read More

Die Ehrenpforte für Kaiser Maximilian I. Dürer und Altdorfer im Dienst des Herrschers (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, vol. 95)

By Thomas Ulrich Schauerte

Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2001. 491 pp, 43 b&w figs., 22 detail plates, ISBN 3-422-06331-5

Review published April 2003

As one of the most active scholars on the art patronage of Emperor Maximilian I Habsburg, I rejoice in this systematic, thoroughly researched study of the ruler's most ambitious and encompassing art [...] Read More

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