For anyone who has stood before Rogier van der Weyden’s Depositionin the Prado, the notion that the painting – with its hyper-realistic details and emotional intensity – is inherently iconoclastic [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted
Despite the popularity of the triptych format in early Netherlandish painting, it has received too little attention. Hopefully, Jacobs’s magnificent book will renew interest and encourage greater [...] Read More
Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
In recent years, the number of libraries, both large and small, that have made their collections of illuminated manuscripts available via the internet and published catalogues has grown exponentially. [...] Read More
Luxury Bound: Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550) (Burgundica 16)
Hanno Wijsman’s remarkable work addresses three themes: the “supply and demand” for illustrated manuscripts; “the relationship between … manuscript[s] and … printed book[s];” and “developments in book [...] Read More
Late Gothic Wall Painting in the Southern Netherlands
Carina Fryklund takes as her subject the development of figurative wall painting in the southern Low Countries in the period 1300 to 1500. In doing so, she offers insight into a form of monumental [...] Read More
Two Books on Pre-Eyckian Painting
Dominique Deneffe, Famke Peters and Wim Fremout, eds., Pre-Eyckian Panel Painting in the Low Countries. Vol. I: Catalogue, by Dominique Deneffe, Famke Peters, Wim Fremout et al.; Vol. II: Essays, by [...] Read More