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
Book Reviews
Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe: A Silent Rhetoric
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.
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
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)
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°.
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