Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue 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

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

Three Publications on Rembrandt

By various authors

Review published November 2008

Gary Schwartz, The Rembrandt Book. New York: Abrams, 2006. 384 pp, 464 color, 185 b&w illus. ISBN 13-978-0-8109-4317-9. Mirjam Alexander-Knotter, Jasper Hillegers, and Edward van Voolen, with [...] Read More

Jean Del Cour Featured in Two Catalogues

By Michel Lefftz

Review published April 2008

Michel Lefftz, Jean Del Cour 1631-1707. Un émule du Bernin à Liège. [Cat. exh. Église Saint-Barthélemy, Liège, October 19, 2007 – February 3, 2008.] Brussels: Édition Racine, 2007. 192 pp, 249 illus. [...] Read More

Das Geheimnis des Jan van Eyck, Die frühen niederländischen Zeichnungen und Gemälde in Dresden

By Thomas Ketelsen and Uta Neidhardt, with the collaboration of Konstanze Krüger and Christien Melzer

With contributions by Till-Holger Borchert, Bodo Brinkmann, Georg Dietz, Thera Folmer-von Oven, Oliver Hahn, Annette Hojer, Christine Kitzlinger, Konstanze Krüger, Christien Melzer, Silke Merchel, Erwin Pokorny, Ina Reiche, Christoph Schölzel, Patrick Seurinck and Olaf Simon. [Cat. exh. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, August 13 – October 31, 2005.] Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005. 264 pp, ISBN 3-422-06566-0

Review published November 2007

Inspired by the 150-year anniversary of Gottfried Semper’s museum building on the Zwinger in Dresden, which was originally intended to house both drawings and paintings, this exhibition and catalogue [...] Read More

Pieter Lastman: In Rembrandts Schatten?

By Martina Sitt (ed.)

[Cat. exh. Kunsthalle, Hamburg, April 13 – July 30, 2006.] Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2006. 152 pp, 69 color, 56 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-7774-2985-4

Review published April 2007

One side-effect of 2006, the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, is the attention paid to Pieter Lastman. Perhaps Lastman is destined forever to be known as Rembrandt’s teacher, but it is time he [...] Read More

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