Anthonis Mor (1516/21-1576/78), painter to Philip II since 1554, left the Spanish court for the Netherlands in the autumn of 1561. The circumstances of his departure remain shrouded in speculation. [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival Imagery
In many ways Stewart's book is suggestive and ambitious. Revisiting the subject of her 1986 Columbia dissertation, Stewart deftly inserts her material into a number of significant art historical and [...] Read More
Four Publications on Lucas Cranach
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
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