Book Reviews

Peter Paul Rubens, The Drawings

By Anne-Marie Logan, in collaboration with Michiel C. Plomp

[Cat. exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 15 – April 3, 2005.] New York: The Metropolitian Museum of Art; New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2005. 332 pp. ISBN 1-58839-139-6 (hardcover: Met. Mus.); 1-58839-141-8 (paperback: Met. Mus.); 0-300-10494-4 (Yale)

Review published November 2005

For those too young to have seen the great round of Rubens exhibitions staged in the 400th anniversary year of 1977, the remarkable 2004-05 exhibition, shown in Vienna and New York, was the first [...] Read More

The Eye of the Lynx. Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History

By David Freedberg

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 513 pp. ISBN 0-226-26147-6

Review published November 2005

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

Die flämischen Gemälde des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (Sammlungskataloge des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums Braunschweig, 12)

By Rüdiger Klessmann

Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2003. 192 pp, 40 col., 159 b&w illus. ISBN 3-7774-9930-7

Review published November 2005

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

By Konrad Renger and Nina Schleif

Ed. by Reinhold Baumstark. Munich: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen -Pinakothek; Cologne: DuMont, 2005. 365 pp, all paintings in color, many with additional details. ISBN 3-8321-7576-8

Review published November 2005

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

By Annette Kranz

Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2004. 526 pp, 47 plates, color and b&w; 42 illus. ISBN 3-7954-1628-0

Review published November 2005

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

By Magdalena Bushart

Munich and Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2004. 365pp. 32 color, 207 b&w illus. ISBN 3-422-064559

Review published November 2005

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

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