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
14th and 15th Centuries
Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge. Part 1, vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Austria (256 pp, 358 color illus.). Part 1, vol. 2: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands (296 pp, 389 color illus.)
The first two sumptuous volumes of Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge (IMC) have arrived. The series of catalogues covers, and will cover, medieval manuscripts in the Cambridge Colleges and the [...] Read More
Conrad Laib: Ein spätgotischer Maler aus Schwaben in Salzburg (Neue Forschungen zur Deutschen Kunst, 8)
Antje-Fee Köllermann's book on Conrad Laib is a magisterial study of his signed paintings and various other works that have been attributed to the artist over the centuries. While this study relies [...] Read More
Der Meister E.S. Ein Kapitel europäischer Kunst des 15. Jahrhunderts
Despite several important monographic exhibitions, notably Alan Shestack's five-hundredth anniversary exhibition of the artist's death (Philadelphia, 1967) and Holm Bevers's one-man show (Munich, [...] Read More
Cultural Exchange Between the Low Countries and Italy (1400-1600)
Following the 2004 CAA session “Cultural Exchange Between the Netherlands and Italy, 1400-1530”, Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, broadening the scope of the subject, edited a fine selection of contributions [...] Read More
“Moult bons et notables”. L’enluminure tournaisienne à l’époque de Robert Campin (1380-1430) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, vol. 17, Low Countries Series, 12)
In taking on the thorniest and most interesting questions associated with early Netherlandish art, there is the dramatic approach that aims to resolve an issue or serve as the final word, much like a [...] Read More