An entrepreneurial furniture salesman from the south German city of Augsburg who mediated cultural exchanges between princely, ducal, and private patrons, the merchant Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647) [...] Read More
Germany and Central Europe
Renaissance in Franken. Hans von Kulmbach und die Kunst um Dürer
Visitors to the St Sebald’s church in Nuremberg are often struck by the colorful painted triptych epitaph for patrician Lorenz Tucher, which features a central scene of the Madonna and Child in a [...] Read More
Riemenschneider in Situ
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
Early Colour Printing. German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum
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; Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist; Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist. Catalogue Supplement
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
Albrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius. Decorating Museums in the Nineteenth Century
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