London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2021. 416 pp. 222 color, 33 b/w ills. ISBN 978-1-912-5544-45-4,
Anyone who has had the singular pleasure of making a Riemenschneider cultural crawl to the small towns in Franconia where his giant altarpieces are preserved in situ will appreciate the benefit and [...] Read More
London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2021. 256 pp., more than 150 color ills. ISBN 978-1-911300-75-5.
German printmakers of the early sixteenth century were the first to experiment with color printing, using multiple woodblocks for each tone to create composite images, often called “chiaroscuro [...] Read More
Dürer war hier: Eine Reise wird Legende. Peter van den Brink, editor. Aachen and Petersberg: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum and Michael Imhof Verlag, 2021. ISBN 978-7319-1136-4. 679 pp. 437 color ills. [...] Read More
University Park: Penn State Press, 2020. 256 pp, 79 illus. in color/64 b&w. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-08594-4.
Jeffrey Chipps Smith’s recent book addressing Albrecht Dürer and the nineteenth century is a most welcome addition to the increasingly large number of publications on Germany’s most celebrated [...] Read More
London: Routledge Press, 2021, 324 pp., ISBN 978-0-367-46511-7.
As its title’s use of the word “reception” suggests, this anthology presents essays on responses to prints. The foregrounding of reception may daunt some scholars. After all, as an interpretive model, [...] Read More
Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2020. 394pp, 197 illus. IBSN 978-2-503-58489-8.
This first volume in the new Brepols Early Modern Cultural Studies series centers on the extraterritorial career of an individual Netherlandish artist, Willem van den Blocke, in order to offer larger [...] Read More