(Monographien zur deutschen Barockmalerei, ed. by Rüdiger Klessmann). Munich and Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2000. 329 pp, 28 col. and 106 b&w illus. ISBN 3-422-06287-4
At around age 22, as Karel van Mander tells us, Hans von Aachen left his native Cologne for Venice and offered his assistance to the artist Gaspar Rem, only to be mocked as a provincial who surely [...] Read More
Edited by Arie Wallert. Zwolle: Waanders Publisher; Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2001. 56 pp, over 80 color and b&w illus. ISBN 90- 400-9487-X
In the Spring of 2001, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum put on show its recently restored Holy Kinship, traditionally attributed to Geertgen tot Sint Jans. Almost twenty years ago, in 1983, the painting had [...] Read More
Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1998. 420 pp, 300 col. and 100 b&w illus. ISBN 90-6153-419-4
Alongside recent studies on Hieronymous Bosch, Robert Campin, and Rogier van der Weyden, this French-language monograph on Hugo van der Goes is the fourth published by Fonds Mercator to focus on an [...] Read More
Zutphen: Primavera Pers, 2000. 320 pp, ca. 260 b&w illus. ISBN 90-74310-60-5
The power of women was a popular theme for writers and artists from the Middle Ages until the mid-seventeenth century. Such subjects as Samson and Delilah and Aristotle and Phyllis embodied the theme [...] Read More
Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2001. 208 pp, 11 col., 68 b&w illus. ISBN 3-7861-2360-8
Based on the author’s doctoral thesis (Berlin: Technische Universität, 1999), this astute book investigates a series of embroidered liturgical vestments, most of which were made in Prague in the years [...] Read More
Music and Dance in 16th-Century Prints. With English translation by Michael Robertson. Munich: Staatliche Graphische Sammlungen, 1999. 224 pp, 90 b&w illus. ISBN 3-927803-29-4
This exhibition catalogue brings together late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century prints with musical subject matter, drawn from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich. Its author, an authority on [...] Read More