Book Reviews

Hans Rottenhammer: begehrt – vergessen – neu entdeckt

By Heiner Borggrefe, Lubomír Konečný, Vera Lüpkes and Vít Vlnas (eds.)

[Cat. exh. Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloß Brake, Lemgo, August 17 – November 16, 2008; Národní Galerie, Prague, December 11, 2008 – February 22, 2009.] Munich: Hirmer, 2008. 212 pp, 26 color plates, 227 col. and 94 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-7774-4315-7

Review published April 2009

The organisers of this superb exhibition are to be congratulated. This first monographic show devoted to the German painter and draughtsman Hans Rottenhammer (1564-1625) took place in Lemgo (where [...] Read More

The Later Flemish Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen

By Christopher White

London: Royal Collection Enterprises, 2007. 421 pp, many illus., mostly colour. ISBN 978-1-902163-63-5

Review published April 2009

There is no doubt that Christopher White's recently published catalogue of the seventeenth-century Flemish paintings in the collection of H. M. Queen Elizabeth II fills an important gap in the series [...] Read More

Anthonis Mor. Art and Authority (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 8)

By Joanna Woodall

Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2007. 512 pp, 174 b&w and color illus. ISBN 978-90-400-8421-8

Review published April 2009

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

Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival Imagery

By Alison G. Stewart

Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. 358 pp, 4 color plates, 101 halftones. ISBN 978-0-7546-3308-2

Review published April 2009

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

By various authors

Review published April 2009

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

By Larry Silver

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. 303 pp, 87 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-691-13019-4

Review published April 2009

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

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