Book Reviews

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

Kein Tag wie jeder andere. Fest und Vergnügen in der niederländischen Kunst, ca. 1520-1630

By Silke Gatenbröcker and Andreas W. Vetter, eds.

[Cat. exh. Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, September 12 - December 8, 2002.] Braunschweig: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, 2002. 143 pp, 16 plates, 16 figs., 36 cat. illus. ISBN 3-922279-56-2

Review published April 2003

One of the wonderful things about exhibition catalogues in Europe is their combination of seriousness and scope. America is so obsessed with blockbuster exhibitions and mega-catalogues to accompany [...] Read More

Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence

By Thomas P. Campbell

With contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Rotraud Bauer, Pascal-François Bertrand, Iain Buchanan, Elizabeth Cleland, Guy Delmarcel, Nello Forti Grazzini, Maria Hennel-Bernasikowa, Lorraine Karafel, Lucia Meoni, Cecilia Paredes, Hillie Smit, and Andrea Stockhammer. [Cat. exh. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 12 - June 19, 2002.] New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. 594 pp, 228 figures, many in color, with many additional color and b&w illus. ISBN 1-58839-021-7; Yale: 1-300-09370-5

Review published April 2003

This catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum's splendid exhibiti on Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence (March 12 - June 19, 2002) presents a major study of a spectacular and important [...] Read More

Jean Prévost: Le Maître de Moulins

By Albert Châtelet

With a contribution by J. R. J. van Asperen de Boer, Paris: Gallimard, 2001. 207 pp, 87 color, 27 b&w illus. ISBN 2-07-011685-9

Review published April 2003

Albert Châtelet's goal in this book is clear from its title: to identify the Master of Moulins, named after a triptych of the Virgin and Child Adored by Angels with Saints and Donors in Moulins [...] Read More

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