The recently published volume (in 2 parts) of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, the Catalogue Raisonné of the work of Peter Paul Rubens, is most exceptional, in that it has so little to do with [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Sinn und Sinnlichkeit. Das Flämische Stilleben: 1550-1680
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)
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
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
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
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