Book Reviews

Niklaus Manuel. Catalogue raisonné

By Michael Egli and Hans Christoph von Tavel, with essays by Petra Barton Sigrist

Zurich, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft and Bern, Burgerbibliothek. Basel: Verlag Schwabe, 2017. 2 vols., 916 pp. ISBN 978-3796536304.

Review published December 2017

While this year marks a half-millennium of the Reformation, that story is limited by its German bias, to the neglect of the movement in Switzerland, which climaxed in Bern and Basel in 1529. One of [...] Read More

Albrecht Dürer & the Epistolary Mode of Address

By Shira Brisman

Chicago/London: Chicago University Press, 2016, 223 pp, numerous b&w and col. illus. ISBN 978–0–226–35475–0.

Review published October 2017

This intriguing and ambitious book seeks to make a major contribution to the field by proposing the existence and importance of an “epistolary mode of artistic address,” which Dürer “played a large [...] Read More

Painting Beauty: Caesar van Everdingen (1616/1617-1678)

By Christi M. Klinkert and Yvonne Bleyerveld, eds.

Cat. exh. Stedlijk Museum, Alkmaar, September 24, 2016 – January 22, 2017. Zwolle: Waanders, 2016. 208 pp, 150 colored illus. ISBN 978-94-6262-108-4.

Review published October 2017

Halfway through a painting career spanning nearly forty years Caesar van Everdingen (1616/17 – 1678; active 1636 – 1673) created an unusual portrait historié depicting Diogenes Looking for an Honest [...] Read More

Rubens. Portraits After Existing Prototypes (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIX, 4)

By Koenraad Jonckheere

London – Turnhout: Harvey Miller, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2016. 340 pp, 217 colored and b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-909400-58-0.

Review published October 2017

Koenraad Jonckheere’s recent addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Portraits After Existing Prototypes, makes an important contribution to the understanding of a neglected but fascinating [...] Read More

Jan de Beer. Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp (Me fecit)

By Dan Ewing

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016. vi, 385 pp, 62 b&w, 203 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-55531-7.

Review published October 2017

Dan Ewing has written an impressive and essential book about one of the most important but least understood painters of Antwerp. In his famous description of the city, the Italian merchant and [...] Read More

Denkende Körper – Formende Hände: Handeling in Kunst und Kunsttheorie der “Rembrandtisten” (Actus et Imago, Berliner Schriften für Bildaktforschung und Verkörperungsphilosophie, XVIII)

By Yannis Hadjinicolaou

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2016. 410 pp, 50 illus. ISBN 978-3-11-043885-7.

Review published October 2017

Yannis Hadjinicolaou’s book, based on his PhD thesis, is concerned with Rembrandtesque handeling in the works of those students of Rembrandt who adhered to their master’s style after it began to go [...] Read More

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