German printmakers of the early sixteenth century were the first to experiment with color printing, using multiple woodblocks for each tone to create composite images, often called “chiaroscuro [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Dürer war hier: Eine Reise wird Legende; Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist; Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist. Catalogue Supplement
Dürer war hier: Eine Reise wird Legende. Peter van den Brink, editor. Aachen and Petersberg: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum and Michael Imhof Verlag, 2021. ISBN 978-7319-1136-4. 679 pp. 437 color ills. [...] Read More
Between Hell and Paradise: The Enigmatic World of Hieronymus Bosch
This book represents the first major exhibition catalog produced after the 2016 celebration of the 500th anniversary of Bosch’s death, which occasioned the publication of catalogs from exhibitions in [...] Read More
Vita di Pietro Paolo Rubens & Vita di Antonio Van Dyck. Das Leben des Peter Paul Rubens & Das Leben des Anthonis van Dyck
Fiona Healy’s commented edition of Giovan Pietro Bellori’s biographies of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck is the sixth volume of the bilingual Italian-German edition of Le Vite de’ pittori, [...] Read More
Rubens. Portraits of Unidentified and Newly Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIX, 3)
In the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard four volumes are devoted to Rubens’s portraits. The first, by Frances Huemer, Portraits Painted in Foreign Countries, appeared in 1977, the second, by Hans [...] Read More
Harmony in Bright Colors: Memling’s God the Father with Singing and Music-Making Angels Restored
Based on the 2017 symposium organized to celebrate the culmination of the sixteen-year conservation of Hans Memling’s God the Father with Singing and Music-Making Angels (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, [...] Read More