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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

Schilderen in opdracht: Noord-Nederlandse contracten voor altaarstukken 1485-1570

By Liesbeth M. Helmus

Utrecht: Centraal Museum, 2010, 463 pp, 98 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-5983-021-9

Review published November 2010

In recent years there has been a great upsurge of interest in the marketing of Netherlandish art. A critical resource for these studies is documentary information, especially that provided by [...] Read More

The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution

By Pamela H. Smith

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 408 pp, 28 color pls. ISBN 978-0-226-76399-6 (cloth), 978-0-226-676423-8 (paper)

Review published November 2010

In his Nova Reperta (c. 1590-1693), a visual repertory of the modern age’s inventions, Jan van der Straet used the same pictorial strategies to present innovations in alchemy, medicine and painterly [...] Read More

Conrad Laib: Ein spätgotischer Maler aus Schwaben in Salzburg (Neue Forschungen zur Deutschen Kunst, 8)

By Antje-Fee Köllermann

Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2007. 204 pp, illus. ISBN: 978-3-87157-217-3

Review published November 2010

Antje-Fee Köllermann's book on Conrad Laib is a magisterial study of his signed paintings and various other works that have been attributed to the artist over the centuries. While this study relies [...] Read More

Der Meister E.S. Ein Kapitel europäischer Kunst des 15. Jahrhunderts

By Janez Höfler

Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2007. 2 vols. Text: 291 pp, 291 b&w illus.; Plates: 318 illus. ISBN 978-3-7954-2027-7

Review published November 2010

Despite several important monographic exhibitions, notably Alan Shestack's five-hundredth anniversary exhibition of the artist's death (Philadelphia, 1967) and Holm Bevers's one-man show (Munich, [...] Read More

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