As Emilie Gordenker says, the history of dress has often in the past been regarded as a suitable occupation for amateurs or, perish the thought, as ‘women’s work.’ But now at last it has moved into [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Van Dyck 1599-1999. Conjectures and Reflections
This volume contains twenty papers which were either delivered or written for the colloquium held in Antwerp at the time of the various exhibitions devoted to Van Dyck in 1999. They cover a wide range [...] Read More
Ut Pictura Politeia oder der gemalte Fürstenstaat. Moritz der Gelehrte und das Bildprogramm in Eschwege (Studien zur Kultur der Renaissance, 1)
The authors of ‘Ut pictura politeia oder der gemalte Fürstenstaat’make another important contribution to the growing body of literature concerning Landgrave Moritz ‘the Learned’ of Hesse-Kassel [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Drawings and Prints
Pieter Bruegel the Elder has been under a brilliant spotlight for some thirty years – a light which has faded away many traditional notions about this artist. A concentrated look at Bruegel’s drawn [...] Read More
Albrecht Dürer. Das Frauenbad von 1496. Eine Ausstellung um eine wiedergefundene Zeichnung
Bremen’s exhibition celebrating the return of two of its Dürer drawings, missing from wartime storage in Schloss Karnzow since the closing days of World War II, opened on a day now considered fateful [...] Read More
La Peinture et le Laboratoire: Procédés. Méthodologie. Applications
This volume brings together the papers presented at the thirteenth colloquium, held at Bruges in September of 1999, dedicated to the investigation of underdrawings and technology in paintings. Edited [...] Read More