Book Reviews

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

The Spitz Master. A Parisian Book of Hours

By Gregory T. Clark

Los Angeles: Getty Museum Studies on Art, 2003. 98 pp, 65 illus., 41 color illus. ISBN 0-89236-712-1.

Review published December 2003

After his death in 1416, Jean, Duke of Berry, was remembered throughout the fifteenth century as a patron of the arts. Readers of Froissart, for example, learned that Jean was fond of speaking with [...] Read More

Two Catalogues on Jacob van Ruisdael

By various authors

Review published April 2003

Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2002. 788 pp, 328 color plates, 1112 b&w illus. ISBN [...] Read More

Ludolf Backhuysen (1630-1708): Sein Leben und Werk

By Gerlinde de Beer

Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2002. 264 pp, 288 illus., many in color, ISBN 90-400-9502-

Review published April 2003

Gerlinde de Beer's monograph on the great Dutch marine painter Ludolf Bakhuizen is a welcome addition to the strikingly limited scholarship on this artist. The foremost seascape painter in the Dutch [...] Read More

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