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
Germany and Central Europe
The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Multiplied and Modified
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
Willem van den Blocke: A Sculptor from the Low Countries in the Baltic Region
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
Hans Holbein. The Artist in a Changing World
Hans Holbein (c. 1497/98–1543) has generated plenty of scholarship in the form of catalogues of paintings, drawings and prints as well as serious exhibition catalogues and scholarly monographs. But he [...] Read More
Die Gemälde des Spätmittelalters im Germanischen Nationalmuseum. Vol. 1: Franken, Parts 1 and 2.
The Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg possesses around 250 German and Austrian paintings from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Most pictures are by now anonymous masters who are, not [...] Read More
Perfection’s Therapy. An Essay on Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I
Mitchell B. Merback’s most recent book, Perfection’s Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I, argues that this celebrated and much-discussed engraving incites a therapeutic or healing [...] Read More