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
14th and 15th Century
Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art
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
Thresholds and Boundaries. Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1530) (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
As points of transition, thresholds offer new possibilities, but they also mark boundaries, divisions of time and space. Employing the anthropological theories of Arnold Gennep and Victor Turner, who [...] Read More
Utopia’s Doom: The Graal as Paradise of Lust, the Sect of the Free Spirit and Jheronimus Boschs’s So-Called Garden of Delights (Art & Religion, 8)
Paul Vandenbroeck has been publishing on Bosch since 1981, with his key publication on the Garden of Earthly Delights appearing in a magisterial, two-part article published in Dutch in the 1989 and [...] Read More
In neuem Glanz. Das Schächer-Fragment des Meisters von Flémalle im Kontext / With New Splendour. The Crucified Thief by the Master of Flémalle in Context
This book is the catalogue for a 2017-2018 exhibition at the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung in Frankfurt. The exhibition (which, sadly, I have not seen) is a small one, highlighting a single painting, [...] Read More
The Making of Hispano-Flemish Style: Art, Commerce, and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Castile
Ronda Kasl’s text is an indispensable addition to the literature on Isabelline art, an area often on the periphery of current art historical scholarship of the fifteenth century. Kasl addresses this [...] Read More
The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch: Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Middle Ages to the Reformation
The “Epiphany” in this book’s title may be read effectively in at least three ways. It refers most directly to Hieronymus Bosch’s great Adoration of the Magi triptych (c.1495) in Madrid, widely known [...] Read More
Early Netherlandish Paintings. Szépmüvészeti Múzeum Budapest, Old Masters’ Gallery Catalogues
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, private individuals acquired many of the Netherlandish paintings presently housed in Budapest’s Szépművészeti Múzeum, though collectors generally prized [...] Read More
Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books
This is a book about the permeability of medieval manuscripts and their transformation into something more responsive to their owners’ lives and concerns. It uses the author’s extensive experience [...] Read More
An Allegory of Divine Love: The Netherlandish Blockbook Canticum Canticorum (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series, 10)
An Allegory of Divine Love emerged out of the author and her husband Irving Lavin’s The Liturgy of Love: Images from the Song of Songs in the Art of Cimabue, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt, The Franklin [...] Read More
Space, Place and Ornament: The Function of Landscape in Medieval Manuscript Illumination
Margaret Goehring proposes the need for a new paradigm for the study of medieval landscapes, one that moves beyond anachronistic concepts of pictorial landscape formulated in Renaissance and [...] Read More
Staging the Court of Burgundy (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 69)
Staging the Court of Burgundy. Proceedings of the Conference “The Splendour of Burgundy” presents a selection of thirty-three essays delivered at a three-day symposium in Bruges that accompanied the [...] Read More
Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book: Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio from Venice to Jerusalem
Elizabeth Ross writes convincing arguments in elegant prose. Moreover, her book is a refreshing, jargon-free study, dripping with ideas and analysis. Penn State Press has outdone itself to produce [...] Read More
‘A la mode italienne’. Commerce du luxe et diplomatie dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux, 1477-1530. Edition criticque de documents de la Chambre des comptes de Lille
This book comes as a surprise, as it is an unusual book, both in terms of its subject matter and in terms of its method. The Italian art historian Federica Veratelli undertook several years of [...] Read More
In the Footsteps of Christ: Hans Memling’s Passion Narratives and the Devotional Imagination in the Early Modern Netherlands (Proteus: Studies in Early Modern Identity Formation 5)
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives's book focuses on three works by Hans Memling: Scenes from the Passion of Christ in Turin, the so-called Seven Joys of Mary in Munich and the Greverade Altarpiece in Lübeck – all [...] Read More