Inspired by the 150-year anniversary of Gottfried Semper’s museum building on the Zwinger in Dresden, which was originally intended to house both drawings and paintings, this exhibition and catalogue [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
The Flemish Primitives, IV: Masters with Provisional Names
This is the fourth in a projected series of five catalogues on the Belgian Royal Museums’ collection of early Netherlandish painting. It follows volumes on The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der [...] Read More
Rethinking the Renaissance: Burgundian Arts across Europe
In Rethinking the Renaissance: Burgundian Arts across Europe,Marina Belozerskaya is on a mission. First and foremost, she seeks to reclaim for Burgundian arts and culture the central position they [...] Read More
Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych Exhibition Catalogue and Essays
John Oliver Hand, Catherine A. Metzger, and Ron Spronk, Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych [Cat. exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington, November 12, 2006 – February 4, 2007; [...] Read More
Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
Andrea Pearson’s pioneering study maps out an intriguing plan for examining Burgundian devotional art in the late middle ages by adopting an unaccustomed focus: that of the gender of its patrons and [...] Read More
Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting
Bret Rothstein's fascinating new book is an exercise in sophisticated visual engagement. His basic premise is that certain early Netherlandish painters intellectually conceived and beautifully crafted [...] Read More