14th and 15th Centuries

Remember Me. Renaissance Portraits

By Sara van Dijk and Matthias Ubl, with contributions by Friso Lammertse and Ilona van Tuinen

Exh. Cat., The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2021. 268 pp. 178 color, 8 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-9032-650-0.

Review published December 2023

This book was published as the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Rijksmuseum from October 1, 2021 to January 16, 2022, but it easily stands alone as an engaging introduction to the artistic and [...] Read More

Alabaster Sculpture in Europe, 1300-1650

By Marjan Debaene, ed.

Exh. Cat. M Leuven, October 14, 2022 – February 26, 2023. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2022. 312 pp, 360 col. illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-92-8.

Review published September 2023

For much of the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period, alabaster was often the material of choice for sculptors in various European centers, creating works ranging from the intimate to the [...] Read More

Jean Bellegambe (c. 1470‒1535/36): Making, Meaning and Patronage of His Works

By Anna Koopstra

Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 156 pp, 119 col. illus. ISBN 978-2-503-57437-0.

Review published May 2023

Anna Koopstra’s book, Jean Bellegambe (c. 1470‒1535/36): Making, Meaning and Patronage of His Works, is a helpful intervention, as the first published volume on this Douaisian painter since 1890. The [...] Read More

Images and Indulgences in Early Netherlandish Painting

By Miyako Sugiyama

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. 193 pp, 10 b&w, 126 col. illus. ISBN: 978-1-912554-58-4.

Review published March 2023

Indulgences have had a bad press. Reviled as the epitome of Catholic greed and the lurid practice that sparked the Reformation, to this day they are cast in a negative light. This view overlooks the [...] Read More

Giusto di Gand e la Comunione del Duca d’Urbino

By Francesca Bottacin, with contributions by Livia Depuyt-Elbaum, Andrea Bernardini, Gianluca Poldi, and Maria Letizia Amadori

Padua: CLEUP, 2021. 296 pp, 179 color illus. ISBN 978-88-5495-364-2.

Review published January 2023

This welcome book by an established scholar of artistic relations between Urbino and the Netherlands is the first monograph on Justus of Ghent since Jacques Lavalleye’s of 1936. Since then, many [...] Read More

Tributes to Maryan W. Ainsworth: Collaborative Spirit: Essays on Northern European Art, 1350-1650

By Anna Koopstra, Christine Seidel, and Joshua P. Waterman, eds.

London: Harvey Miller Publishers and Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022. 346 pp, 250 color illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-75-1.

Review published December 2022

This marvelous Festschrift’s subtitle Collaborative Spirit captures one of the defining characteristics of Maryan Ainsworth’s celebrated career as a curator, teacher, and prolific scholar. The three [...] Read More

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14th and 15th Centuries