The Lamentation Group in St. Anne’s Church in Augsburg is unusual in many respects. At the center, the haunting, almost levitating Christ confronts the audience with his emaciated body. The emotional [...] Read More
Germany and Central Europe
Das Große Stammbuch Philipp Hainhofers. Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 355 Noviss. 8°.
Sabine Jagodzinski’s Das Große Stammbuch Philipp Hainhofers addresses one of the most significant extant alba amicorum (friendship albums) collections of signatures, inscriptions, poems, drawings, [...] Read More
Aemulatio Italorum. La reception culturelle des gravures d’Andrea Mantegna dans l’art germanique au temps d’Albrecht Dürer.
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
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