Book Reviews

Jacob Backer (1608/9-1651)

By Peter van den Brink, Jaap van der Veen et al.

[Cat. exh. Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, November 29, 2008 – February 22, 2009; Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, March 12 – June 5, 2009.] Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2008. 270 pp, 339 illus. ISBN 978-90-400-8565-9

Review published November 2010

To secure a place in the history of art, it was not always useful to have been considered Rembrandt's pupil. Few seventeenth-century painters were as unfortunate posthumously as Jacob Backer. Due to [...] Read More

Three Publications on Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz

By Reinhold Baumstark and various authors

Review published November 2010

Kurfürst Johann Wilhelms Bilder. Vol. I: Sammler und Mäzen. Edited by Reinhold Baumstark with contributions by Reinhold Baumstark, Marcus Dekiert, Hubert Glaser, Oliver Kase and Christian Quaeitzsch. [...] Read More

The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries (The Classical Tradition in Architecture)

By Christopher P. Heuer

London: Routledge, 2008. 298 pp, 118 b&w illus., 4 color pls. ISBN 978-0-415-43306-8

Review published November 2010

The Dutchman Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) is generally acknowledged as the ‘father of architectural painting’ or the progenitor of the art of perspective, a designer who utilized the tradition [...] Read More

Cranach und die Kunst der Renaissance unter den Hohenzollern. Kirche, Hof und Stadtkultur

By Elke Anna Werner, et al

[Cat. exh. Schloss Charlottenburg und Evangelische Kirchengemeinde St. Petri- St. Marien, Berlin, October 31, 2009 – January 24, 2010.] Berlin: Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz und Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009. 368 pp, b&w and color illus. ISBN: 978-3-422-06910-7

Review published November 2010

This impressive book breaks much new ground in the art and architectural history of Renaissance Berlin-Brandenburg. The Hohenzollern electors' territorial expansion, religious choices, and dynastic [...] Read More

Daniel Hopfer. Ein Augsburger Meister der Renaissance

By Christof Metzger, et al.

[Cat. exh. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, November 5, 2009 – January 31, 2010.] Munich: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009. 568 pp, col. plates, b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-4220-6931-2

Review published November 2010

The exhibition at the Graphische Sammlung, Munich, dedicated to Augsburg printmaker Daniel Hopfer (c.1470-1536) reveals the field's fresh appreciation for artists formerly perceived as 'derivative,' [...] Read More

The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print 1550-1625 (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series, 1)

By Walter S. Melion

Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2009. I + 431 pp, 157 illus. ISBN 978-0-916101-60-2

Review published November 2010

This ponderous quarto is in some respects both a summation and an extension of Walter Melion’s work of the past two decades, in which he has identified and analyzed instances of what he calls [...] Read More

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