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
Book Reviews
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
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