The complete scientific compilation of natural history, especially the animal and plant world, was the principal project of the Accademia dei Lincei. Founded in 1603 by the Roman nobleman Federico [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Die flämischen Gemälde des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (Sammlungskataloge des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums Braunschweig, 12)
The publication of this catalogue of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Flemish paintings in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig is a cause for celebration. This old and distinguished [...] Read More
Staatsgalerie Neuburg an der Donau. Flämische Barockmalerei
Rubens kehrt zurück (Rubens returns). With this catchy phrase, the city of Neuburg on the Danube, one and a half hours north of Munich, promoted its new art museum dedicated to Flemish [...] Read More
Christoph Amberger, Bildnismaler zu Augsburg. Städtische Eliten im Spiegel ihrer Porträts
Annette Kranz presents the oeuvre and patrons of Christoph Amberger in a meticulously researched and generously illustrated study that brings the Augsburg portrait painter into the mainstream of [...] Read More
Sehen und Erkennen. Albrecht Altdorfers religiöse Bilder
Truth in packaging. This book, based on the author’s 2001Habilitationschrift, delivers what its title promises. Beginning with a sketch of Altdorfer historiography as well as period religion, it [...] Read More
Jan Joest: Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des Reinlandes um 1500 (Schriften der Heresbach-Stiftung Kalkar, 11)
Growing out of her dissertation, completed in 2000 for the Technische Universität, Berlin, Schollmeyer’s book is a substantial addition to the literature on Lower Rhenish painting. Jan Joest is at [...] Read More