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14th and 15th Centuries

The Library of the Dukes of Burgundy

By Bernard Bousmanne and Elena Savini, eds.

Brussels: Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) / London: Harvey Miller. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2020. 205 pp, 134 color illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-24-9.

Review published January 2021

In September of 2020, the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels opened a state-of-the-art museum to great fanfare. Its purpose is to offer the public the opportunity to enjoy a rotating exhibit of [...] Read More

Van Eyck

By Maximiliaan Martens, Till-Holger Borchert, Jan Dumolyn, Johan De Smet, and Frederica Van Dam, eds.

Exh. Cat. Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, February 1 – March 12, 2020. London – New York: Thames & Hudson, 2020. 490 pp, 350 color illus. ISBN 978-0-500-02345-7.

Review published December 2020

Many readers will have shared my disappointment at having missed the exhibition Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution, which opened at Ghent’s Museum voor Schone Kunsten on February 1st, 2020, and was [...] Read More

The Ghent Altarpiece: Research and Conservation of the Exterior

By Bart Fransen and Cyriel Stroo, eds.

Contributions to the Study of the Flemish Primitives, 14. Brussels: Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Brussels, 2020. 430 pp, 300 color illus. ISBN 978-2-930054-38-4.

Review published October 2020

As the first in a series about Jan (and Hubert?) van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece (1432), this volume documents the research and conservation treatment of the exterior panels. It is undoubtedly an [...] Read More

Borman. A Family of Northern Renaissance Sculptors

By Marjan Debaene, ed.

[Exh. Cat. M – Museum, Leuven, September 20, 2019 – January 26, 2020.] London / Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2019. 312 pp, 560 color illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-41-6.

Review published June 2020

This edited volume was produced to accompany the much anticipated exhibition Borman and Sons: The Best Sculptors, held at M-Museum Leuven from September 20th, 2019 to January 26th, 2020. Like the [...] Read More

Satire, Veneration, and St. Joseph in Art, c. 1300-1550

By Anne L. Williams

(Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 244 pp, 10 col. plates, 54 b&w illus. ISBN 978-94-6298-374-8 (hardback), 978-90-4853-411-1 (e-book).

Review published June 2020

As Anne Williams astutely identifies, depictions of Saint Joseph in works of art of the fourteenth to sixteenth century are rife with paradox, a seemingly conflicting combination of ridicule and [...] Read More

Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience in Early Netherlandish Painting

By Ingrid Falque

Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 38. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xxiv, 336 pp, 111 color illus. ISBN: 978-90-04-36975-7 (hardback); 978-90-04-39760-6 (e-book).

Review published April 2020

Lucidly written and clearly organized, Ingrid Falque’s study focuses on the portraits integrated into religious pictures from the Low Countries between circa 1400 and 1550. The corpus of works [...] Read More

The Image of the City in Early Netherlandish Painting (1400-1550)

By Jelle De Rock

Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), 44. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2019. 356 pp, 95 b&w illus., 17 col. pls., 14 tables. ISBN 978-2-503-57982-5.

Review published March 2020

As a religious artifact, The Ghent Altarpiece (1432) radiates the intangible power of Christ’s sacrifice and God’s forgiveness. As a material work of art, Jan van Eyck’s polyptych pulls the narrative [...] Read More

Moving with the Magdalen: Late Medieval Art and Devotion in the Alps

By Joanne W. Anderson

New York – London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.  xvi, 248 pp, 44 b&w illus., 40 color illus. ISBN 978-1-5013-3468-9 (hardback); 978-1-5013-3470-2 (ePDF); 978-1-5013-3469-6 (eBook).

Review published February 2020

Joanne Anderson expands our knowledge of Mary Magdalen imagery by analyzing little known Alpine fresco cycles and altarpieces of the saint produced between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth [...] Read More

Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts

By Kathryn M. Rudy

Library of the Written Word, The Manuscript World, Volume 55. Leiden: Brill, 2016. xxii, 308 pp, 152 color illus. ISBN 978-90-04-32695-8 (hardback); 978-90-04-32696-5 (e-book).

Review published October 2019

Kathryn Rudy has added a new and beautifully illustrated study to her already extensive bibliography on readers’ interactions with early Netherlandish manuscripts. It is a monumental undertaking. She [...] Read More

The Renaissance Nude

By Thomas Kren with Jill Burke and Stephen J. Campbell, eds.

Cat. exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, October 30, 2018 – January 27, 2019; Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 2 – June 2, 2019. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018. xiii, 417 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-1-6060-6584-6.

Review published September 2019

This handsomely produced and beautifully illustrated catalogue considers the development of the naturalistic nude in various media produced in northern and southern Europe, c. 1400-1530. It [...] Read More

A Knight for the Ages: Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry

By Elizabeth Morrison, ed.

Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2018. xi, 180 pp, 18 pls, 60 figs. ISBN 978-1-606-06575-4.

Review published September 2019

Jacques de Lalaing, the bon chevalier, a renowned jouster and military commander in the service of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, died in 1453, aged only thirty-two, at the siege of Poeke during [...] Read More

Hans Memling: Portraiture, Piety, and a Reunited Altarpiece

By John Marciari, ed.

Exh. Cat. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, September 2, 2016 – January 8, 2017. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2016. 112 pp, 55 illus. in color. ISBN 978-1-911300-08-3.

Review published September 2019

New York is a city fortunate enough to contain a significant group of paintings by Hans Memling. From portraiture (the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Tommaso di Folco Portinari and Maria Portinari are [...] Read More

Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art

By Andrea Pearson

Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 296; Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 37. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2019. xxii, 356 pp, 148 illus., mostly color. ISBN 978-90-04-39295-3 (hardback); 978-90-04-39310—3 (e-book).

Review published August 2019

Pearson sets out to expand and recalibrate the ways that art historians conceptualize early modern garden imagery. Specifically, she challenges an overemphasis on interiority that she sees in modern [...] Read More

Colard Mansion. Incunabula, Prints and Manuscripts in Medieval Bruges

By Evelien Hauwaerts, Evelien de Wilde and Ludo Vandamme, eds.

[Exh. cat. Groeningemuseum, Bruges, March 1 – June 3, 2018.] Ghent: Snoeck, 2018. 256 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-94-6161-439-1.

Review published February 2019

This catalogue accompanied the exhibition Haute Lecture by Colard Mansion: Innovating Text and Image in Medieval Bruges, co-organized by Musea Brugge and Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge. Devoting an [...] Read More

Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art

By Carlee A. Bradbury and Michelle Moseley-Christian, eds.

Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xvii, 244 pp, 26 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-319-65049-4.

Review published August 2018

In a new blog on intersectionality posted by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, literature historian Christina Luckyj confronted tensions that she identified between a contemporary, [...] Read More

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