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Jacobus Vrel. Searching for Clues to an Enigmatic Artist

By Bernd Ebert, Cécile Tainturier and Quentin Buvelot, eds.

Translated from the Dutch, German and French by Bram Opstelten, David Radzinowicz and Diane Webb. Exh. cat. The Mauritshuis, Feb. 16 – May 29, 2023 and the Fondation Custodia, Paris, June 17 – Sept. 17, 2023. Munich: Hirmer, 2021. 256 pp, 224 col. illus. ISBN 978-3-7774-9.

Review published October 2022

This remarkable monograph was produced to accompany the eponymous international exhibition of Vrel’s paintings that will be on view at the Mauritshuis (Feb. 16 – May 29, 2023) and the Fondation [...] Read More

Renaissance in Franken. Hans von Kulmbach und die Kunst um Dürer

By Manuel Teget-Welz and Hans Dickel, eds.

Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2022. 192 pp. 219 color and 8 b/w ills.  ISBN 978-3-7319-1228-6.

Review published October 2022

Visitors to the St Sebald’s church in Nuremberg are often struck by the colorful painted triptych epitaph for patrician Lorenz Tucher, which features a central scene of the Madonna and Child in a [...] Read More

Riemenschneider in Situ

By Katherine M. Boivin and Gregory C. Bryda, eds.

London: Harvey Miller Publisher, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. 416 pp. 222 color, 33 b/w ills. ISBN 978-1-912-5544-45-4.

Review published October 2022

Anyone who has had the singular pleasure of making a Riemenschneider cultural crawl to the small towns in Franconia where his giant altarpieces are preserved in situ will appreciate the benefit and [...] Read More

The Intimate Rembrandt

By Christopher White

London: Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022. 256 pp, 169 illus. ISBN 10-1838395326, ISBN 13-978-1838395322.

Review published September 2022

Our enduring attraction to Rembrandt and the vast art historical scholarship devoted to his works can be largely attributed to the artist’s boundless visual curiosity about everything he saw around [...] Read More

Early Colour Printing. German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum

By Elizabeth Savage

London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2021. 256 pp., more than 150 color ills. ISBN 978-1-911300-75-5.

Review published August 2022

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