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Two Publications on Romeyn de Hooghe

By various authors
Review published November 2010

Henk van Nierop, Ellen Gravowsky, Anouk Janssen (eds.), Romeyn de Hooghe: De verbeelding van de late Gouden Eeuw. With introductory essay by Henk van Nierop and contributions by Anna de Haas, Henk van [...] Read More

Ludolf Backhuysen. Emden 1630 – Amsterdam 1708

By Friedrich Scheele and Annette Kanzenbach (eds.)

[Cat. exh. Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden, Emden, November 30, 2008 – March 1, 2009.] (Veröffentlichungen des Ostfriesischen Landesmuseum Emden 27). Munich/ Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008. 180 pp, 83 colour illus., 5 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-422-06875-9

Review published November 2010

The singular achievement of Ludolf Backhuysen as the Dutch Golden Age’s master of the monumental tempest first received its full due with a monographic exhibition in Emden and Amsterdam, his native [...] Read More

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

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