In 1763 the Frankfurt patrician Johann Friedrich Arman Uffenbach bequeathed his collection of books, instruments, about ten thousand prints, including an impressive Rembrandt collection, and one [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Rembrandt Creates Rembrandt: Art and Ambition in Leiden, 1629-1631
One approach to the complexities of Rembrandt and his art is to divide the artist’s periods, works, themes, and associations, so that the small doses of the artist or oeuvre allow in-depth examination [...] Read More
Oder wohl-erlaubte Gemählde Und Bilder-Lust. Die Gemäldesammlung des Lothar Franz von Schönborn in Schloss Gaibach/Unterfranken. Der Gemäldekatalog von Jan Joost van Cossiau aus dem Jahre 1721
Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1655-1729), Prince bishop of Bamberg, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, and as such Chancellor of the Reich, was the second most powerful man after the German Emperor and [...] Read More
Gärten und Höfe der Rubenszeit im Spiegel der Malerfamilie Brueghel und der Künstler um Peter Paul Rubens
The transitory nature of gardens certainly does not make them the most obvious subject for a museum exhibition, and indeed many would be hard put to envisage such an undertaking. Those who visit the [...] Read More
Höfisches Mäzenatentum in Brüssel. Kardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586) und die Erzherzöge Albrecht (1559-1621) und Isabella (1566-1633)
Claudia Banz, Höfisches Mäzenatentum in Brüssel. Kardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586) und die Erzherzöge Albrecht (1559-1621) und Isabella (1566-1633)(Berliner Schriften zur Kunst XII), [...] Read More
David III Ryckaert: A Seventeenth-Century Flemish Painter of Peasant Scenes (Pictura Nova, VI)
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