Renaissance Quarterly back issues from June 2007:
Concepts of childhood: what we know and where we might go.
Jun 22, 2007; ... 1. INTRODUCTION The history of the history of childhood begins, as everyone knows, with Philippe Aries, whose Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life--an evocative mistranslation of the original title, L'Enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Regime--burst on ...
"No quyckar merchaundyce than lybrary bokes": John Bale's commodification of manuscript culture.
Jun 22, 2007; ... In July 1560, Matthew Parker (1504-75), Archbishop of Canterbury, wrote to John Bale seeking information regarding any "bokes of Antiquitie, not printed" that Bale may have had in his possession. (1) Bale replied that "havock" had been made of his library seven years earlier, when he had ...
Civility, comportment, and the anatomy theater: Girolamo Fabrici and his medical students in Renaissance Padua.
Jun 22, 2007; ... 1. INTRODUCTION Between January and April 1590, a transalpine student in Padua wrote to the Riformatori dello studio, a group of two to four magistrates appointed by the Venetian Senate to oversee the activities of the university. In his letter, he requests more opportunities to ...
Opening the queen's closet: Henrietta Maria, Elizabeth Cromwell, and the politics of cookery.
Jun 22, 2007; ... 1. INTRODUCTION A painting by Dutch artist Gerrit Houckgeest, dated 1635, shows Charles I (1600-49), Queen Henrietta Maria, and young Prince Charles dining in a spacious banqueting hall, with black marble pillars and a carved wood mantlepiece on the left and a corridor and ...
Bibliographia Kristelleriana: A Bibliography of the Publications of Paul Oskar Kristeller 1929-1999.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Thomas Gilbhard, ed. Bibliographia Kristelleriana: A Bibliography of the Publications of Paul Oskar Kristeller 1929-1999. Preface by John Monfasani. Sussidi Eruditi 72. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2006. xxii + 132 pp. index. append. bibl. [euro]25. ISBN: ...
Korrespondenz 1950 bis 1956.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Erwin Panofsky. Korrespondenz 1950 bis 1956. Ed. Dieter Wuttke. Vol. 3 of Korrespondenz 1910 bis 1968. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006. xxxvi + 1382 pp. index. append. illus. chron. bibl. [euro]180. ISBN: 3-447-05373-9. In spite of the cool, scholarly detachment ...
The Last Days of the Renaissance and the March to Modernity.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Theodore K. Rabb. The Last Days of the Renaissance and the March to Modernity. New York: The Perseus Book Group, 2006. xxiv + 228 pp. + 8 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $26. ISBN: 0-465-06801-4. Theodore Rabb notes that in the historiographic wake of Jacob Burckhardt ...
Language and Cultural Change: Aspects of the Study and Use of Language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Lodi Nauta, ed. Language and Cultural Change: Aspects of the Study and Use of Language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 24. Leuven: Peeters Publishers and Booksellers, 2006. xiv + 224 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]45. ISBN: ...
Funktionen des Humanismus: Studien zum Nutzen des Neuen in der humanistischen Kultur.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Thomas Maissen and Gerrit Walther, eds. Funktionen des Humanismus: Studien zum Nutzen des Neuen in der humanistischen Kultur. Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2006. 416 pp. index. illus. [euro]30. ISBN: 3-8353-0025-3. This collection of essays derives from an ...
Gardens of Philosophy: Ficino on Plato.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Marsilio Ficino. Gardens of Philosophy: Ficino on Plato. Trans. Arthur Farndell. London: Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd., 2006. xiv + 192 pp. index. append. $34.95. ISBN: 0-85683-240-5. This work is a translation of Ficino's "shorter commentaries or summaries" (Clement ...
Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Crofton Black. Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas 116. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xiv + 266 pp. index, append. bibl. $139. ISBN: 90-04-15315-2. This volume ...
The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Sergio Zatti. The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso. Intro. by Albert Russell Ascoli. Ed. Dennis Looney. Trans. Sally Hill and Dennis Looney. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. viii + 316 pp. index. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-8020-9373-6. Sergio Zatti's ...
"Il ricco edificio": Arte allusiva nella.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Raffaele Antonio Ruggiero. "Il ricco edificio": Arte allusiva nella Gerusalemme Liberata. Biblioteca dell' "Archivum Romanicum" Series 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia 328. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2005. xxii + 194 pp. index. bibl. [euro]22. ISBN: 88-222-5466-X. ...
Staging the Pastoral: Tasso's Aminta and the Emergence of Modern Western Theater.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Maria Galli Stampino. Staging the Pastoral: Tasso's Aminta and the Emergence of Modern Western Theater. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 280. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. xviii + 310 pp. index. illus. bibl. $46. ISBN: ...
L'arte del buffone: Maschere e spettacolo tra Italia e Bavaria nel XVI secolo.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Daniele Vianello. L'arte del buffone: Maschere e spettacolo tra Italia e Bavaria nel XVI secolo. La Commedia dell'Arte. Storia testi documenti 7. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2005. 448 pp. + 38 color and 9 b/w pls. append. illus. bibl. [euro]30. ISBN: 88-7870-086-X. Even ...
Italy and the European Powers: The Impact of War, 1500-1530.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Christine Shaw, ed. Italy and the European Powers: The Impact of War, 1500-1530. History of Warfare 38. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xxx + 318 pp. index. illus. tbls. $142. ISBN: 90-04-15163-X. The Italian wars and contemporary rulers have been the subject ...
At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Paola Lanaro, ed. At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800. Essays and Studies 9. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 412 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. gloss. $32. ISBN: 0-7727-2031-2. ...
The Justice of Venice: Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... James E. Shaw. The Justice of Venice, Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700. The British Academy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 246 pp. index. tbls. gloss. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-19-726377-1. For over a century, the study of one or another ...
Cola di Rienzo e il comune di Roma.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Andreas Rehberg and Anna Modigliani. Cola di Rienzo e il comune di Roma. 2 vols. Rome: RR Inedita, 2004. Vol. 1: Andreas Rehberg. Clientele e fazioni nell'azione politica di Cola di Rienzo. ii + 212 pp. index. bibl. Vol. 2: Anna Modigliani. L'eredita di Cola di Rienzo: Gli ...
Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Ronald K. Delph, Michelle M. Fontaine, and John Jeffries Martin, eds. Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 76. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2006. xiv + 266 pp. index. illus. bibl ....
L'eremita e il sinodo: Paolo Giustiniani e l'offesiva medicea contro Girolamo Savonarola (1516-1517).(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Stefano Dall'Aglio. L'eremita e il sinodo: Paolo Giustiniani e l'offesiva medicea contro Girolamo Savonarola (1516-1517). Il tempo di Savonarola 2. Florence: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006. xii + 210 pp. index. append. illus. [euro]44. ISBN: 88-8450-187-3. The treasure ...
The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Desmond Seward. The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope. Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2006. 310 pp. + 16 b/w pls. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 0-509-2981-2. This uninspired biography takes us once again over the familiar ...
Cosimo I de' Medici and His Self-Presentation in Florentine Art and Culture.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Henk Van Veen. Cosimo I de' Medici and His Self-Presentation in Florentine Art and Culture. Trans. Andrew McCormick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 266 pp. index. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 978-0-521-83722-7. Duke Cosimo de' Medici's commissions at ...
Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Gabrielle Langdon. Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xvi + 372 pp. + 16 color and 65 b/w pls. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-8020-3825-5. This is a study of Medici women, especially their ...
Re-Membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning, and Portraiture.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Allison Levy. Re-Membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning, and Portraiture. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. xx + 194 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5404-4. ...
Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Jules Lubbock. Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv + 354 pp. index. append. illus. $45. ISBN: 0-300-11727-2. The illustration of biblical narrative plays an important, and sometimes paradoxical, role in ...
Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle at La Brigue.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Veronique Plesch. Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle at La Brigue. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. xxx + 458 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-268-03888-0. Veronique Plesch's book is a ...
Michelangelo scultore.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Cristina Acidini Luchinat. Michelangelo scultore. Photographs by Aurelio Amendola. I Grande Libri D'Arte. Milan: Federico Motta Editore, 2005. 320 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. [euro]98. ISBN: 88-7179-488-5. This introduction to Michelangelo's sculptures, extremely ...
Raphael and the Beautiful Banker: The Story of the Bindo Altoviti Portrait.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... David Alan Brown and Jane Van Nimmen. Raphael and the Beautiful Banker: The Story of the Bindo Altoviti Portrait. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. x + 262 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-300-10824-9. Many of Raphael's paintings have eventful ...
Raffaels Papageienzimmer: Ritual, Raumfunktion und Dekoration im Vatikanpalast der Renaissance.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Tristan Weddigen. Raffaels Papageienzimmer: Ritual, Raumfunktion und Dekoration im Vatikanpalast der Renaissance. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2006. 336 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. [euro]59. ISBN: 3-9809436-2-3. Now that Nikki Moustaki's Parrots for ...
Parmigianino.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... David Ekserdjian. Parmigianino. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. x + 304 pp. index. illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-300-10827-3. Parmigianino was one of the most innovative painters in sixteenth-century Italy. He was also a prolific draftsman (nearly 1,000 sheets ...
Paolo Veronese: Kunst als soziales System.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Hans Dieter Huber. Paolo Veronese: Kunst als soziales System. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2005. 602 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. [euro]152. ISBN: 3-7705-3842-0. The self-referentiality of art has been a hot topic for a good while now, and so it was only a matter of time ...
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... David Alan Brown and Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, eds. Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting. National Gallery of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xvi + 336 pp. index. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-300-11677-2. In the early modern ...
Caravaggio, Guercino, Mattia Preti: Das halbfigurige Historienbild und die Sammler des Seicento.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Sandra Gianfreda. Caravaggio, Guercino, Mattia Preti: Das halbfigurige Historienbild und die Sammler des Seicento. Berlin: Edition Imorde, 2005. 248 pp. index. illus. bibl. [euro]32. ISBN: 3-9809436-0-7. In her meticulous study, the first fully devoted to the ...
Building Renaissance Venice: Patrons, Architects and Builders, c. 1430-1500.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Richard J. Goy. Building Renaissance Venice: Patrons, Architects and Builders c. 1430-1500. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. x + 316 pp. index. append. illus. gloss. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-300-11202-0. This carefully researched, thoughtfully organized work suggests ...
Die Villen von Siena und ihre Bauherren: Architektur und Lebenswirklichkeit im fruhen 16. Jahrhundert.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Gerda Bodefeld. Die Villen von Siena und ihre Bauherren: Architektur und Lebenswirklichkeit im fruhen 16. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, 2003. 216 pp. illus. tbls. map. gloss. bibl. [euro]49. ISBN: 3-496-01273-0. Gerda Bodefeld's book brings welcome ...
The Gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza, 1656-1665: A Manuscript Planting Notebook with a Study, Transcription, and Translation.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Ada D. Segre. The Gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza, 1656-1665: A Manuscript Planting Notebook with a Study, Transcription, and Translation. 2 vols. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 194 pp. append. illus. bibl. $95. ...
Typography Papers 6.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Paul Stiff, ed. Typography Papers 6. London: Hyphen Press, 2005. 156 pp. illus. bibl. $40. ISBN: 0-907259-29-4. The title of Typography Papers is misleading, since its interests range far beyond the worlds of typography and type design to encompass letterforms of all ...
The Humble Story of Don Quixote: Reflections on the Birth of the Modern Novel.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Cesareo Bandera. The Humble Story of Don Quixote: Reflections on the Birth of the Modern Novel. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. xiv + 318 pp. index. bibl. $79.95. ISBN: 0-8132-1452-1. Since Bandera wrote his seminal Mimesis conflictiva ...
Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid: Theater of Negotiation.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Jodi Campbell. Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid: Theater of Negotiation. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. vi + 176 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5418-4. Jodi Campbell describes this work as "a book about Spanish ...
The Triumphant Juan Rana: A Gay Actor of the Spanish Golden Age.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Peter E. Thompson. The Triumphant Juan Rana: A Gay Actor of the Spanish Golden Age. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. x + 184 pp. index. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-8020-8969-0. Scholarly attention to the staging and performance of early modern Spanish theater has ...
Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Allyson M. Poska. Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 272 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $90. ISBN: 0-19-926531-3. In Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain, Allyson Poska examines gendered ...
Rhetorical Conquests: Cortes, Gomara, and Renaissance Imperialism.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Glen E. Carman. Rhetorical Conquests: Cortes, Gomara, and Renaissance Imperialism. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures 35. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2006. viii + 250 pp. index. append. bibl. $43.95. ISBN: 1-55753-403-9. This volume examines how the ...
Andres Gonzalez de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Jonathan Earl Carlyon. Andres Gonzalez de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library. Studies in Book and Print Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. x + 254 pp. index. illus. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-8020-3845-X. Long the object of ...
A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity, and Knowledge in Early Modern France.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Michael Wintroub. A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity, and Knowledge in Early Modern France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006, xii + 306 pp. index. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-8047-4872-1. Michael Wintroub's Savage Mirror: Power, Identity, and Knowledge in Early ...
Catholic Activism in South-West France, 1540-1570.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Kevin Gould. Catholic Activism in South-West France, 1540-1570. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. viii + 190 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5226-2. Few scholars have studied mid-sixteenth-century France, ...
Blood and Violence in Early Modern France.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Stuart Carroll. Blood and Violence in Early Modern France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 370 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $110. ISBN: 0-19-929045-8. Twice winner of the Nancy Roelker Prize and author of the remarkable Noble Power during the French ...
Students and Teachers at the University of Paris: The Generation of 1500. A Critical Edition of Bibliotheque de l'Universite de Paris (Sorbonne), Archives, Registres 89 and 90.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... James K. Farge, ed. Students and Teachers at the University of Paris: The Generation of 1500. A Critical Edition of Bibliotheque de l'Universite de Paris (Sorbonne), Archives, Registres 89 and 90. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 25. Leiden: Brill ...
Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Philip Ford and Paul White, eds. Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France. Proceedings of the Eighth Cambridge French Renaissance Colloquium 5-7 July 2003. Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 2006. xii + 202 pp. index. illus. n.p. ISBN: 0-9511645-9-7. Not only ...
L'humanisme a Toulouse (1480-1596): Actes du colloque international de Toulouse, mai 2004.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Nathalie Dauvois, ed. L'humanisme a Toulouse (1480-1596): Actes du colloque international de Toulouse, mai 2004. Colloques, congres et conferences sur la Renaissance europeenne 54. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 640 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]76. ISBN: ...
Les Commentaires de la langue grecque de Guillaume Bude: L'aeuvre, ses sources, sa preparation.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Luigi-Alberto Sanchi. Les Commentaires de la langue grecque de Guillaume Bude: L'aeuvre, ses sources, sa preparation. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 410. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 328 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]168. ISBN: 2-600-01040-8. ...
Jean (c. 1525-1570) et Josias (c. 1560-1626) Mercier: L'amour de la philologie a la Renaissance et au debut de l'age classique.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Francois Roudaut, ed. Jean (c. 1525-1570) et Josias (c. 1560-1626) Mercier: L'amour de la philologie a la Renaissance et au debut de l'age classique. Actes du Colloque d'Uzes (2 et 3 mars 2001). Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 310 pp. index. tbls. bibl. [euro]56. ISBN: ...
Montaigne dans le labyrinthe: De l'imaginaire du Journal de voyage a l'ecriture des Essais.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Elisabeth Schneikert. Montaigne dans le labyrinthe: De l'imaginaire du Journal de voyage a l'ecriture des Essais. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 486 pp. index. tbls. map. chron. bibl. [euro]65. ISBN: 2-7453-1346-0. In the title of her recent work, Montaigne ...
Thuanus: The Making of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617).(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Ingrid A. R. De Smet. Thuanus: The Making of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617). Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 418. Geneva: Librarie Droz S. A., 2006. 344 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. CHF 116. ISBN: 2-600-01071-8. Ingrid A. R. De Smet's study most skillfully ...
Le pathetique dans le theatre de Robert Garnier.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Florence Dobby-Poirson. Le pathetique dans le theatre de Robert Garnier. Bibliotheque Litteraire de la Renaissance 66. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 662 pp. index. bibl. [euro]119. ISBN: 2-7453-1419-X. Robert Garnier (1545?-90) is universally regarded today ...
Le Jugement poetic de l'honneur femenin.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Jean Bouchet. Le Jugement poetic de l'honneur femenin. Ed. Adrian Armstrong. Vol. 1 of CEuvres completes. Textes de la Renaissance 101. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 596 pp. index. append. illus. gloss. bibl. [euro]65. ISBN: 2-7453-1339-8. This edition of Le ...
L'ombre discourante de Marie de Gournay.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Anna Lia Franchetti. L'ombre discourante de Marie de Gournay. Etudes Montaignistes 45. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 272 pp. index. bibl. [euro]39. ISBN: 2-7453-1337-1. The Discursive Shadow of Marie de Gournay is an expert study of the writings of Marie de ...
Kunst um 1400 im Erzstift Magdeburg: Studien zur Rekonstruktion eines verlorenen Zentrums.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Maria Dieters. Kunst um 1400 im Erzstift Magdeburg: Studien zur Rekonstruktion eines verlorenen Zentrums. Neue Forschungen zur deutschen Kunst 7. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006. 190 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. [euro]76. ISBN: 3-87-157-208-X. This beautifully ...
The Art of the Goldsmith in Late Fifteenth-Century Germany: The Kimbell Virgin and her Bishop.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Jeffrey Chipps Smith, The Art of the Goldsmith in Late Fifteenth-Century Germany: The Kimbell Virgin and her Bishop. Kimbell Art Museum. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. viii + 86 pp. illus. map. bibl. $16.95. ISBN: 0-300-11736-1. This concise, elegantly ...
Albrecht Durer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... David Hotchkiss Price. Albrecht Durer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003. xxii + 338 pp. + 8 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $67.50. ISBN: 0-472-11343-7. ...
Jean Jacques Boissard, Ovids Metamorphosen 1556: Die Bildhandschrift 79 C 7 aus dem Berliner Kupferstichkabinett.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Michael Thimann. Jean Jacques Boissard, Ovids Metamorphosen 1556: Die Bildhandschrift 79 C 7 aus dem Berliner Kupferstichkabinett. Ikongraphische Repertorien zur Rezeption des antiken Mythos in Europa 5. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2005. 228 pp. index. append. illus. bibl ....
Hieronymus Bosch.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Larry A. Silver. Hieronymus Bosch. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2006. 424 pp. index. illus. bibl. $135. ISBN: 0-7892-0901-6. This book joins the wealth of scholarship generated by the 2001 Rotterdam exhibition, "Hieronymus Bosch and his World." The text ...
Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Walter S. Gibson. Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xxii + 266 pp. index. illus. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 0-520-24521-0. Walter Gibson, a well-known scholar of sixteenth-century Netherlandish art, has set himself an ...
Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Anne T. Woollett, Ariane van Suchtelen, and Tiarna Doherty. Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2006. xiv + 274 pp. index. illus. bibl. $40. ISBN: 0-89236-848-9. In a roughly twenty-five year span, between 1598 and 1625, ...
Young Rembrandt: The Leiden Years, 1606-1632.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Roelof van Straten. Young Rembrandt: The Leiden Years, 1606-1632. Trans. R. Quartero. With contributions by Ingrid Moerman. Leiden: Foleor Publishers, 2005. 370 pp. index. illus. bibl. [euro]59.50. ISBN: 90-75035-22-5. In 2006, Rembrandt admirers and scholars ...