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
Book Reviews
Böhmische Bildstickerei um 1400: Die Stiftungen in Trient, Brandenburg und Danzig
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
O Musica, du edle Kunst. Musik und Tanz im 16. Jahrhundert/Music for a While. Music and Dance in 16th-Century Prints
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
“Nach dem Leben und aus der Phantasie”. Niederländische Zeichnungen vom 15. bis 18. Jahrhundert aus dem Städelschen Kunstinstitut
Frankfurt’s Städel has a distinguished history, and it is sensibly offering its own treasures to the public in a series of exhibitions of the permanent collection, including remarkable holdings in [...] Read More
Old Master Prints and Drawings, a Guide to Preservation and Conservation
This beautifully produced book is packed with information that will be of great interest and utility to anyone involved with old prints and drawings. Far from being a narrowly prescriptive manual, the [...] Read More
Of Counselors and Kings: The Three Versions of Pierre Salmon’s ‘Dialogues’
The subject of Anne D. Hedeman’s excellent book is a small group of fifteenth-century manuscripts, rich and idiosyncratic in both conception and execution, of the Dialogues written by Pierre Salmon to [...] Read More