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
Germany and Central Europe
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
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