Book Reviews Archives - Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

Along with Nuremberg, Augsburg was a leading center of art production in the early sixteenth century in Upper Germany, one that until recently in the scholarship has tended to play second fiddle to [...] Read More

Readers of HNA Reviews are more than familiar with the odd term, “Northern Renaissance,” and its problematic link between Northern Europe and the classical revival that properly centered on Italy’s [...] Read More

Poor Albrecht Dürer had not been in his grave more than a day before his body was exhumed by a group of enthusiastic local artists, eager to acquire some relic of “whatever of Albrecht Dürer [that] [...] Read More

Netherlandish sculpture of the sixteenth century, as Kavaler notes, has taken a back seat to studies of Netherlandish painting – and to sixteenth-century German sculpture as well. This book forms a [...] Read More

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

A familiar narrative around the Brussels sculptor François du Quesnoy (1597-1643), known in Rome as il Fiammingo, goes something like this: despite being Flemish by birth, suffering various personal [...] Read More