The December 2024 issue of Print Quarterly has been published, containing several articles on Dutch and Flemish artists.
Georgios E. Markou’s shorter notice on Jan Sadeler illustrates how the engraver’s two print series, the Imago Bonitatis Illius (Image of his goodness) and Boni et Mali Scientia (Knowledge of good and evil) served as visual sources for an ensemble of eight panel paintings preserved in the Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Bellomo in Syracuse, Sicily. The panels are attributed to the Greek painter Emmanuel Lambardos, who was active in Venetian Candia (present-day Heraklion, Crete) from 1587 to 1631. Sadeler’s prints likely circulated from his studio in Venice, established in 1596, via the republic’s unparalleled trade routes.
In Jeffrey Chipps Smith’s note on Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century, he mentions the impact of Hieronymus Bosch’s apocalyptic vision of the world, while Maarten van Heemskerck’s Old Testament prints parallel the shattered view of a unified Christianity during the Protestant Reformation.
Meanwhile, F. Carlo Schmid’s note on Die Freiheit der Linie presents an overview of seventeenth-century etchings in the prints and drawings department of the Landesmuseum in Mainz. An unfortunate series of events left the museum with only a single Rembrandt left in the collection, The Stoning of St Stephen.
The issue also contains a review of the three New Hollstein volumes on Adriaen van Ostade (1610–85), which provide a major contribution to studies on this artist.
Contents
Articles
Andrea Andreani’s ‘Abduction of the Sabine Women’ after Giambologna by Rachel A. Young
Jean Pierre Bouch, A Rediscovered Polymath by Dorinda Evans
Printing Colour Theory: Paul Signac, Auguste Clot and Colour Lithography in 1890s France by Natalia Lauricella
Shorter Notice
Jan Sadeler in Venetian Candia by Georgios E. Markou
Notes
Hans Burgkmair’s Drawings (Hans Burgkmair: Die Zeichnungen) by Peter Parshall
Holbein and the Place of Print (Holbein: Capturing Character) by Marisa Anne Bass
Prints in an Age of Instability: Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century by Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Callot, Della Bella, Castiglione and Etching in the Seventeenth Century (Die Freiheit der Linie) by F. Carlo Schmid
The History of the Chalcographie du Louvre (Graver pour le Roi: Collections Historiques de la Chalcographie du Louvre) by Christian Rümelin
Prints after Versailles Sculptures and Sculptures after Prints (Gravuren nach Skulpturen – Skulpturen nach Gravuren) by Evonne Levy
The Emblem on the Stage by Simon McKeown
Handbook of the Colour Print in China, 1600–1800 by Clarissa von Spee
The First British Caricature in Aquatint? by Nicholas JS Knowles
Félicien Rops (1833–98) at the Hamburger Kunsthalle (‘Paris ist meine Bibliothek’. Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik von Félicien Rops) by Lars Berg
Wood-engraving (Scene through Wood: A Century of Wood Engraving) by Cristian Rümelin
From Posada to Isotype, from Kollwitz to Catlett by Mark McDonald
Becoming CoBrA (Beginnings of a European Art Movement) by Jonas Storsve
Picasso on Paper by Rhoda Eitel-Porter
Gustav Kluge (b. 1947) (Gustav Kluge: Werkverzeichnis der Druckstöcke) by Christian Rümelin
Publications Received
Catalogue and Book Reviews
Raffaello Schiaminossi by Jamie Gabbarelli
Adriaen van Ostade (The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish) by Tom Rassieur
300th Anniversary of Piranesi’s Birth (Giambattista Piranesi: Architetto senza tempo; Das Piranesi-Prinzep; Piranesi Unbound) by Bénédicte Maronie
The East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India (Unmaking the East India Company) by Deborah Swallow
Exploring Emil Orlik (Emil Orlik an Max Lehrs. Künstlerpost aus aller Welt; Emil Orlik: Das druckgraphische Werk) by Agnes Matthias
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