Mary Magdalene is hot – in current scholarship, that is. Although studies of the cult and iconography of the Magdalene were surprisingly limited until relatively recently, books by Susan Haskins [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
Illuminated Crusader Histories for Philip the Good of Burgundy (Ars Nova. Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Northern Painting and Illumination XII)
Elizabeth Moodey has written an elegant book with a clear and didactic structure. While starting out with the goal to “consider Philip [the Good] as a patron of history writing and of illuminated [...] Read More
Re-Making the Margin. The Master of the David Scenes and Flemish Manuscript Painting around 1500
Re-Making the Margin, based on the author’s 2002 dissertation,discusses a new style of decorating books that became prominent around 1500. As-Vijvers identifies the Master of the David Scenes as the [...] Read More
Albrecht Bouts (1451/55 – 1549) (Contributions à l’étude des Primitifs flamands 10)
In her revised monograph on the work of Dieric Bouts (2005), Catheline Périer D’Ieteren pointed to the importance of the artist’s two sons, Dieric the Younger and Albrecht, in the development of their [...] Read More
‘Ung bon ouvrier nommé Marquet Caussin’. Peinture et enluminure en Hainaut avant Simon Marmion
Ung bon ouvrier, the preluding title of this monograph (elegantly recalling two earlier books by the same author, De fin or et d’azur, 2001, and Moult bons et notables, 2007), might be just as [...] Read More
Renaissance Gothic: Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe 1470-1540
It is always a cause for celebration when a book forces you to look at even familiar works of art with new appreciation. Renaissance Gothic is a remarkably stimulating analysis of architectural [...] Read More