Reaktion Books’ Renaissance Lives series, which includes Alfred Acres’s Jan van Eyck within His Art, aims to “explore and illustrate the life histories and achievements of significant artists, [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
A Spectacle for a Spanish Princess: The Festive Entry of Joanna of Castile into Brussels (1496)
This volume, published by Brepols with the collaboration of CEEH (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica), addresses an event known from only one primary source, the manuscript of The Festive Entry of [...] Read More
Fantasmagorie. Streghe, demoni e tentazioni nell’arte fiamminga e olandese del Seicento
The European fascination with the various manifestations of witches, demons and evil temptations seems endless; it generated a flourishing production of imagery that was supported by literary culture. [...] Read More
Dieric Bouts: Creator of Images
In fifteenth-century Leuven, Dieric Bouts (c. 1410/1420-1475) produced high-quality panel paintings that have remained somewhat eclipsed by the oeuvres of figures such as Jan van Eyck and Rogier van [...] Read More
Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality
In 1525, the market price of a tapestry like “Honor” (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015.396) – made for Érard de la Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liège – would approximate 108 years of a laborer’s wage. A [...] Read More
Jan van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment: Solving a Conundrum
In the course of a new research project on the Crucifixion and Last Judgment in The Metropolitan Museum of Art – star works, attributed to Jan van Eyck – Maryan Ainsworth and her colleagues made the [...] Read More