It must be counted ill luck to be dubbed ‘the third’, when Senior never existed as a painter (he was probably a decorator of sculpture), and Junior, although a recorded master in the guild of St Luke, [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Dürer and his Culture
While there is scarcely a shortage of scholarly publications focused directly upon the various aspects of Albrecht Dürer’s life and work – such studies had already reached gargantuan proportions prior [...] Read More
Dürer to Veronese. Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery
This attractive volume presents the impressive sixteenth-century holdings of London’s National Gallery, offering numerous art historical perspectives from which to appreciate its works. The paintings, [...] Read More
Autour de Henri Bles (Monographies du Musée des Arts Anciens du Namurois, 20)
This is the catalogue of a comprehensive exhibition on Herri met de Bles and his artistic entourage, held at the Musée des Arts Anciens du Namurois, Namur, May 13 – November 1, 2000. The exhibition [...] Read More
Die Erfindung der Landschaft. Kosmographie und Landschaftskunst im Zeitalter Bruegels
Why did the motif of landscape develop from a backstage prop into a self-sufficient genre in Flemish painting around the middle of the sixteenth century? What did this mean to the contemporary viewer? [...] Read More
Burkhard Engelberg, “Der vilkunstreiche Architector und der Statt Augspurg Wercke Meister” Burkhard Engelberg und die süddeutsche Architektur um 1500: Anmerkungen zur sozialen Stellung und Arbeitsweise spätgotischer Steinmetzen und Werkmeister (Schwäbische Geschichtsquellen und Forschungen, 18)
A condensed version of the author’s prodigious doctoral dissertation (University of Bamberg, 1987), this still quite sizeable book examines and contextualizes the life and work of Burkhard Engelberg [...] Read More