Almost two decades have elapsed since the last large-scale exhibition devoted to this subject: the joint presentation of museums in Philadelphia and Boston: The Prints of Lucas van Leyden and his [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The New Hollstein: German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700: Heinrich Aldegrever
Heinrich Aldegrever has remained a stepchild of German print history. Already dismissed as a secondary follower of Dürer from the next generation and grouped with the ‘Little Masters’ (Kleinmeister) [...] Read More
Ljubezen in Nespamet. Minne und Torheit
In 1999 the Albertina and the National Gallery of Slovenia hosted an exhibition of thirty-one rare fifteenth-century German prints from the Albertina’s collection. Called Ljubezen in Nespamet. Minne [...] Read More
Three Volumes New Hollstein: Schnitzer, Groeningen, Van Doetecum
Hollstein’s German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700; volume XLVI: Johann Schnitzer to Lucas Schnitzer. Compiled by Ursula Mielke, edited by Tilman Falk. Rotterdam: Sound and Vision [...] Read More
Paul Bril: The Drawings. A Study of their Role in Seventeenth-Century European Landscape (Pictura Nova, IV)
This book is the fourth title to appear in the excellent Pictura Novaseries of studies in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Flemish painting and drawing, which has already brought us one other work [...] Read More
Fresh Woods and Pastures New: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings from the Peck Collection
Sheldon and Leena Peck are among several notable Boston-area collectors of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Inspired by Konrad Oberhuber at the Fogg Art Museum in 1978, they have assembled a sizable [...] Read More