Albrecht Dürer’s drawings of Andrea Mantegna’s engravings Bacchanal with Silenus and the right half of Battle of the Sea Gods, both dated 1494, hold an important place in the long history of artistic [...] Read More
Germany and Central Europe
Melchior Lorck. Facts Fiction Interpretation.
Some artists fall between stools in modern scholarship, because their country of origin no longer corresponds to contemporary boundaries, or else because their movements across boundaries fail to [...] Read More
Holbein at the Tudor Court
The spectacular 2021 Holbein portraiture exhibition, organized by Anne Woollett for the J. Paul Getty Museum and shown also at the Morgan Library & Museum (to be reviewed), might seem as if there [...] Read More
Melchior Lorck: An Artist in Transit
The Royal Collection of Graphic Art at The National Museum of Denmark (SMK) holds what is perhaps the world’s largest collection of works by Melchior Lorck (1526/7 – 1583). The exhibition Melchior [...] Read More
Art of Enterprise. Israhel van Meckenem’s 15th-Century Print Workshop
Almost a missing link between the most celebrated pioneer engravers of the fifteenth century, Master ES and Martin Schongauer, is a less familiar figure, the Upper Rhenish printmaker Israhel van [...] Read More
Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World
Fire swept through the Residenz palace in Munich in 1729. One casualty was the central panel of Albrecht Dürer’s Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin Mary Altarpiece, created between 1507 and 1509 [...] Read More