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
14th and 15th Centuries
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
Renaissance Invention and the Haunted Infancy
The beauty of Alfred Acres's book is that it takes themes, or better, ideas that are so familiar – those intimations of the Passion or of evil in scenes of Christ's Infancy – and shows how dense with [...] Read More
Picturing the “Pregnant” Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550: Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
Scholarship has often explained Mary Magdalene’s great popularity in the Renaissance in terms of her flexible iconography and her ability to address diverse audiences. One of the many strengths of [...] Read More