Funerals are for the living, not the dead, conventional wisdom tells us. Anne Morganstern’s book reminds us that funeral monuments are for the living, too. This book identifies and interprets a [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Le château de Boussu (Études et Documents, Monuments et Sites, 8.)
Though little known today, Netherlandish châteaux of the Renaissance once enjoyed a formidable reputation, serving as centres of aristocratic culture and illustrious patronage. With Charles V an [...] Read More
Two Books on Flemish Tapestries
Guy Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry. London: Thames & Hudson; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999. 383 pp, generous colour and some b&w illus. ISBN 0-500-01972-X. Guy Delmarcel, Los Honores. [...] Read More
Die Druckgraphik Lucas van Leydens und seiner Zeitgenossen. Bestandes-katalog der Graphischen Sammlung der ETH Zürich
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
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