David Areford's marvelous book offers his readers the opportunity to reconsider early woodcuts and metalcuts in new ways. He not only effectively shows how these ephemeral and inexpensive images were [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
Women at the Burgundian Court: Presence and Influence / Femmes à La Cour de Bourgogne: Présence et Influence (Burgundica XVII)
The editors of this anthology have collected papers stemming from the 2005 exhibition and conference in Mechelen, Women of Distinction: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria, which examined the era [...] Read More
In and Out of the Marital Bed. Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe
Diane Wolfthal's In and Out of the Marital Bed; Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe is a fascinating examination of a subject that, until recently, has been taboo in mainstream art-historical [...] Read More
Virtual Pilgrimages in the Convent: Imagining Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages (Disciplina Monastica 8. Studies on Medieval Monastic Life; Études sur la Vie Monastique au Moyen Age)
When going on a long journey to a distant place, it is helpful to have an experienced guide. Dante had his Virgil; travelers on the Grand Tour had their Baedekers. Religious women of the late middle [...] Read More
Hugo van der Goes and the Procedures of Art and Salvation ( Harvey Miller Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 49)
Scholarly attention to Hugo van der Goes has increased in recent years, and the present book, a revised and expanded version of the author's 1999 doctoral dissertation written at Columbia University, [...] Read More
Martin Schongauer. Maler und Kupferstecher
Schongauer scholars should be forewarned: despite its ample visuals, this tome definitely is not a life-and-works monograph, like the exemplary 2004 study by Stephan Kemperdick. Instead, as a [...] Read More