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
14th and 15th Centuries
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
Wahrheit und Mythos – Bernt Notke und die Stockholmer St.-Georgs-Gruppe. Studien zu einem Hauptwerk niederländischer Bildschnitzerei
Just over a century ago the German-educated Swedish art historian Johnny Roosval attributed the famous sculpture in the Church of St. Nicholas in Stockholm of St. George Slaying the Dragon to the [...] Read More
Van Eyck to Dürer. Early Netherlandish Painting & Central Europe 1430-1530
“Make no small plans,” proclaimed architect Daniel Burnham, and he proceeded to develop the master plan for the city of Chicago. That could be the watchword for Till-Holger Borchert; his massive [...] Read More
The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text Performance (Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages, 3)
The Dance of Death, or danse macabre, emerged as a literary and pictorial theme in Europe in the late medieval era. Combining powerful imagery with poetry, skeletons prance amongst a host of figures [...] Read More