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Albrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius. Decorating Museums in the Nineteenth Century

By Jeffrey Chipps Smith

University Park: Penn State Press, 2020. 256 pp, 79 illus. in color/64 b&w. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-08594-4.

Review published December 2021

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

The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Multiplied and Modified

By Grażyna Jurkowlaniec and Magdalena Herman, eds.

London: Routledge Press, 2021, 324 pp., ISBN 978-0-367-46511-7.

Review published November 2021

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

By Franciszek Skibiński

Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2020. 394pp, 197 illus. IBSN 978-2-503-58489-8.

Review published March 2021

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

By Jeanne Nuechterlein

London: Reaktion Books, 2020, 280 pp., 70 illus., some in color. ISBN 978-1-78914-211-2.

Review published November 2020

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.

By Daniel Hess, Dagmar Hirschfelder and Katja von Baum, eds.

Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2019, 2 vols., 1,126 pp, richly illustrated. ISBN: 978-3-7954-3398-7.

Review published August 2020

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

By Mitchell B. Merback

New York: Zone Books, 2017. 357 pp, 91 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-942130-00-0.

Review published August 2019

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

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