In the past eleven years the Rubenianum has been forcing the pace. It managed to bring out no less than five volumes of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, whereas only two had been published in [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Rubens. Copies and Adaptions from Renaissance and Later Artists: German and Netherlandish Artists (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI [I])
Almost thirty years ago I sat looking at a drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds in the Morgan Library. Attributed to Hans Süss von Kulmbach, the sketch unmistakably betrayed Albrecht Dürer’s [...] Read More
Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence
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
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