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
Book Reviews
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
Burkhard Engelberg, “Der vilkunstreiche Architector und der Statt Augspurg Wercke Meister” Burkhard Engelberg und die süddeutsche Architektur um 1500: Anmerkungen zur sozialen Stellung und Arbeitsweise spätgotischer Steinmetzen und Werkmeister (Schwäbische Geschichtsquellen und Forschungen, 18)
A condensed version of the author’s prodigious doctoral dissertation (University of Bamberg, 1987), this still quite sizeable book examines and contextualizes the life and work of Burkhard Engelberg [...] Read More
Adriaen de Vries, 1556-1626, Imperial Sculptor
Adriaen de Vries, sculptor to royal courts and wealthy cities, is the subject of the recent exhibition in Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Los Angeles; the accompanying catalogue is the first lengthy [...] Read More
Gothic Tombs of Kinship in France, the Low Countries, and England
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