Book Reviews

La Almoneda del siglo. Relaciones art’sticas entre España y Gran Bretaña, 1604-1655

By Jonathan Brown and John Elliott (eds.)

Exhibition catalogue, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2002. 315 pp, more than 65 color plates, numerous b&w illus. ISBN 84-8480-031-8.

The catalog also appeared in English under the title The Sale of the Century: Artistic Relations between Spain and Great Britain, 1604-1655, New Haven and London (Yale University Press), 2002. ISBN 0-0009-761-1

Review published November 2002

The 'sale of the century' refers to the dispersal of the collection of Charles I of England, one of the most beautiful art collections at the beginning of the seventeenth century, in the [...] Read More

Jörg Breu the Elder. Art, Culture, and Belief in Reformation Augsburg

By Andrew Morrall

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. 281 pp, 10 color, 147 b&w illus. ISBN 1-84014-608-7

Review published November 2002

Although a relatively unfamiliar and little studied artist, Jörg Breu was a major figure in the leading economic center of Germany along with Dürer's Nuremberg. Breu presents many fascinating issues, [...] Read More

Three Volumes New Holstein: Schongauer, Amman, De Gheyn

By various authors

Review published November 2002

Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts 1400-1700; volume XLIX: Ludwig Schongauer to Martin Schongauer. Compiled by Lothar Schmitt, edited by Nicholas Stogdon. Rotterdam: Sound and [...] Read More

Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden

By Heiner Borggrefe, Thomas Fusenig and Barbara Uppenkamp

Ed. by Heiner Borggrefe, Vera Lüpkes, Paul Huvenne, Ben Van Beneden [Cat. exh. Schloss Brake, Lemgo, May 26 - August 25, 2002; Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, September 15 Ð December 8, 2002]. Munich: Hirmer, 2002. 397 pp, 500 illus. ISBN 3-7774-9470-4

Review published November 2002

In today's world Hans Vredeman de Vries (Leeuwarden 1526 - Hamburg 1609) would probably be much in demand as an 'in-designer', but in his own day he enjoyed a more diverse reputation: as painter, [...] Read More

Brueghel Enterprises

By Peter van den Brink (ed.), with contributions by Dominique Allart, Peter van den Brink, Christina Currie, Rebecca Duckwitz, Pascale Fraiture and Suzanne Harleman

[Cat. exh. Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, October 13, 2001 - February 17, 2002; Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, March 22 - June 23, 2002]. Amsterdam/Ghent: Ludion, 2001, 191 pp, illus., many in col. ISBN 90 55443891

Review published November 2002

Although there is no shortage of bibliography on the artist, public opinion has not been kind to Pieter Brueghel the Younger. From the time that Carel van Mander dismissed him in a sentence or two [...] Read More

Corpus de la peinture des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux et de la principauté de Liège au quinzième siècle, 19: Musée du Louvre Paris III

By Philippe Lorentz and Micheline Comblen-Sonkes

With the collaboration of the Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique et du Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des musées de France. 2 vols. Brussels: Centre International d'Études de la Peinture Médievale des Bassins de L'Escaut et de la Meuse, 2001. 372 pp, 16 color and 224 b&w plates, ISBN 2-87033-010-3 (Belgium), ISBN 2-7118-4320-3 (France)

Review published November 2002

One of the most ambitious and time consuming projects in the field of Early Netherlandish paintings is the publication of a volume of the 'Primitifs flamands Corpus,' which aims to present and [...] Read More