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
14th and 15th Centuries
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
Le ‘Ci nous dit’: L’image médiévale et la culture des laïcs au XIVe siècle : les enluminures du manuscrit de Chantilly
Ci nous dit, originally known as Une composition de la Sainte Ecriture, was written around 1320 by an anonymous author perhaps in the region around Soissons, and survives today in 18 exemplars. The [...] Read More
Hieronymus Bosch. Die Zeichnungen. Werkstatt und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts
Over the last decade a new consensus has been emerging about Hieronymus Bosch, usually regarded as an eccentric and a unique, if influential genius. First the 2001 Rotterdam exhibition and its [...] Read More
The Land of Unlikeness: Hieronymus Bosch,The Garden of Earthly Delights
Panofsky's Early Netherlandish Painting concludes with his assessment of the difficulties of "decoding Jerome Bosch," stating, "We have bored a few holes through the door of the locked room; but [...] Read More