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
Book Reviews
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
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