Gerhard Ermischer and Andreas Tacke (eds.), Cranach im Exil. Aschaffenburg um 1540. Zuflucht – Schatzkammer – Residenz. [Cat. exh. Museen der Stadt Aschaffenburg, February 24 – June 3, 2007.] [...] Read More
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Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor
Larry Silver's new book delights even before the reader opens it. Exactly the right size, slender but heavy, it is wrapped in a dust jacket designed by Tracy Baldwin to play cleverly with a 1519 [...] Read More
Forgery, Replica, Fiction. Temporalities of German Renaissance Art
Meticulously researched and insightfully argued, Christopher Wood's Forgery, Replica, Fiction. Temporalities of German Renaissance Artresponds to the decades-old debate over how we define what is [...] Read More
Unity and Discontinuity. Architectural Relationships Between the Southern and Northern Low Countries (1530-1700) (Architectura Moderna, 5)
This extensive book, written largely by Krista De Jonge and Konrad Ottenheym, with contributions by Joris Snaet, Gabri van Tussenbroek, and Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, is an important contribution to the [...] Read More
Images for the Eye and Soul: Function and Meaning in Netherlandish Prints (1450-1650)
Images for the Eye and Soul is a collection of eleven essays by Ilja Veldman, a premier scholar of Netherlandish prints. For the past three decades, Veldman has investigated many aspects of early [...] Read More
Neugier & Sammelbild. Rezeptionsästhetische Studien zu gemalten Sammlungen in der niederländischen Malerei ca. 1550-1650
While obviously a dissertation publication with mediocre production values of fuzzy, small black-and-white images under discussion, this nevertheless is an impressive work of synthesis, offering a [...] Read More