Book Reviews

Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe: A Silent Rhetoric

By Kim W. Woods

London: Lund Humphries (Northern Lights Series), 2024. 144 pp, 65 color illus. ISBN 978 1 84822 673 9.

Review published January 2025

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

Une odyssée baroque. Les du Quesnoy et la sculpture à Bruxelles au XVIIe siècle.

By Géraldine Patigny

With contributions by Camille De Clercq, Judy De Roy and Laurent Fontaine (Scientia Artis, 20). Brussels: Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique, 2024. 485 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-2-930054-45-2 (French).

Review published January 2025

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

Margaret Duchess of Parma. The Emperor’s Daughter between Power and Image

By Katrien Lichtert (curator)

MOU, Museum Oudenaarde, September 21, 2024 – January 1, 2025
Companion volume to exhibition edited by Katrien Lichtert. Veurne: Hannibal Books, 2024. 240 pp, 131 color images + details. ISBN 978-94-6494-133-3.

Review published January 2025

Three decades have lapsed since the pioneering exhibition about Mary of Hungary, Habsburg regent of the Netherlands (1993).[1] Along with their dominant imperial relatives, Maximilian I and Charles V, [...] Read More

The Holy Trinity, the Life of the Virgin, Madonnas and the Holy Family (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part IV, 1)

By Fiona Healy. Edited by Brecht Vanoppen

2 vols. London – Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2024, 352 pp. Vol. 1: 310 pp; Vol. 2: 392 illus. ISBN 978-1-915487-40-4 (vol. 1) and 978-1-915487-41-4 (vol. 2).

Review published January 2025

One of the greatest catalogue projects in the history of art history is nearing its finish line. The entirety of Rubens’s output along with related sketches, drawings, variants, and copies engaged the [...] Read More

Das Große Stammbuch Philipp Hainhofers. Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 355 Noviss. 8°.

By Sabine Jagodzinski, Assisted by Peter Burschel, Markus Hilgert, and Falko Mohrs.

Berlin/Wolfenbüttel: HAB Patrimonia 405, 2024. 108pp, 39 color illus. ISBN 978-3-447-12116-3.

Review published January 2025

Sabine Jagodzinski’s Das Große Stammbuch Philipp Hainhofers addresses one of the most significant extant alba amicorum (friendship albums) collections of signatures, inscriptions, poems, drawings, [...] Read More

A Celestial Jerusalem in Bruges: The Adornes Estate and the Jerusalem Chapel

By Jan Dumolyn and Noël Geirnaert, eds.

Veurne: Hannibal Books, 2024. 303 pp, more than 100 illus. ISBN 978 94 6466 694 6 (English edition), ISBN 978 94 6466 693 9 (Dutch edition), ISBN 978 94 6466 695 3 (French edition).

Review published January 2025

The year 2024 marked the 600th anniversary of the birth of the merchant and diplomat Anselm Adornes (1424-1483). Published to mark the occasion, the volume of essays under review here concerns the [...] Read More

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