Michael Cole’s interesting and important new book examines the production of Florentine sculptors during the second half of the sixteenth century. The work offers a significant contribution to our [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Two Books on Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Walter Gibson, Figures of Speech: Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xv, 236 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-0-520-25954-6. Gerald [...] Read More
Dürer’s Fame
An old saying goes: if you find yourself surrounded by lemons, make lemonade. Although the National Gallery of Scotland owns a major Holbein, Law and Grace, ca. 1535 (see Hans Holbein the Younger, the [...] Read More
Exhibition Catalogs on Joos van Cleve and Lucas van Leyden
Peter van den Brink, in collaboration with Alice Taatgen and Heinrich Becker, Joos van Cleve: Leonardo des Nordens. Cat. exh. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, March 17 – June 26, 2011. Stuttgart: [...] Read More
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Susan Dackerman has done it again. Her first major print exhibition dropped jaws and opened eyes to an early graphic phenomenon known only partially but originally widespread: Painted Prints [...] Read More
Hugo van der Goes and the Procedures of Art and Salvation ( Harvey Miller Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 49)
Scholarly attention to Hugo van der Goes has increased in recent years, and the present book, a revised and expanded version of the author's 1999 doctoral dissertation written at Columbia University, [...] Read More