In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, private individuals acquired many of the Netherlandish paintings presently housed in Budapest’s Szépművészeti Múzeum, though collectors generally prized [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books
This is a book about the permeability of medieval manuscripts and their transformation into something more responsive to their owners’ lives and concerns. It uses the author’s extensive experience [...] Read More
An Allegory of Divine Love: The Netherlandish Blockbook Canticum Canticorum (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series, 10)
An Allegory of Divine Love emerged out of the author and her husband Irving Lavin’s The Liturgy of Love: Images from the Song of Songs in the Art of Cimabue, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt, The Franklin [...] Read More
Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
Made up of an established core and a changing array of international contributors, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär gathers every three years. Scholars present new research on early modern Germany, and [...] Read More
Georg Pencz. Künstler zu Nürnberg
If we consult received wisdom (I used Giulia Bartrum's reliable survey, German Renaissance Prints 1490-1550, 1995), we find several accepted facts about Georg Pencz (vital statistics given, c. [...] Read More
Fantastische Welten. Albrecht Altdorfer und das Expressive in der Kunst um 1500
I always thought that the term "expressive" was a modernist or twentieth-century concept, in which the depiction of figure types and formal elements conjured up a peculiar state of mind or conveyed [...] Read More