Some later moments of German art history seem forever viewed out of peripheral vision. One particular and crucial moment is the so-called 'Frankenthal School' at the turn of the seven-teenth century. [...] Read More
Germany and Central Europe
Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany
The effects of the Reformation have dominated scholarship on later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art in Germany. Both iconoclasm and the devastation of the Thirty Years' War created the [...] Read More
Hans von Aachen, 1552-1615
At around age 22, as Karel van Mander tells us, Hans von Aachen left his native Cologne for Venice and offered his assistance to the artist Gaspar Rem, only to be mocked as a provincial who surely [...] Read More
Böhmische Bildstickerei um 1400: Die Stiftungen in Trient, Brandenburg und Danzig
Based on the author’s doctoral thesis (Berlin: Technische Universität, 1999), this astute book investigates a series of embroidered liturgical vestments, most of which were made in Prague in the years [...] Read More
Oder wohl-erlaubte Gemählde Und Bilder-Lust. Die Gemäldesammlung des Lothar Franz von Schönborn in Schloss Gaibach/Unterfranken. Der Gemäldekatalog von Jan Joost van Cossiau aus dem Jahre 1721
Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1655-1729), Prince bishop of Bamberg, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, and as such Chancellor of the Reich, was the second most powerful man after the German Emperor and [...] Read More
Burkhard Engelberg, “Der vilkunstreiche Architector und der Statt Augspurg Wercke Meister” Burkhard Engelberg und die süddeutsche Architektur um 1500: Anmerkungen zur sozialen Stellung und Arbeitsweise spätgotischer Steinmetzen und Werkmeister (Schwäbische Geschichtsquellen und Forschungen, 18)
A condensed version of the author’s prodigious doctoral dissertation (University of Bamberg, 1987), this still quite sizeable book examines and contextualizes the life and work of Burkhard Engelberg [...] Read More