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
14th and 15th Centuries
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
The Retablo de Isabel la Católica by Juan de Flandes and Michel Sittow ( Me fecit , 2)
In her monograph on Queen Isabel's Retablo , likely never completed and hence never assembled, Chiyo Ishikawa meticulously and convincingly examines that work of private devotion, commissioned in 1496 [...] Read More
In the Shadow of Burgundy: The Court of Guelders in the Late Middle Ages
Inspired by what he considers to have been a dramatic misrepresentation and downgrading of the court of Guelders during a key century of independence (1371-1473), Gerard Nijsten aims in this work of [...] Read More