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
14th and 15th Centuries
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
Three Volumes on Conrad von Soest
Brigitte Buberl (ed.), Conrad von Soest. Neue Forschungen über den Maler und die Kulturgeschichte der Zeit um 1400(Dortmunder Mittelalter-Forschungen. Schriften der Conrad-von-Soest-Gesellschaft. [...] Read More
Humour and Folly in Secular and Profane Prints of Northern Europe 1430-1540
Christa Grössinger will probably be best known to readers of thisReview of Books for her very useful introduction to gender issues in early northern imagery , Picturing Women in Late Medieval and [...] Read More
The Mayer van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp (Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège, 20)
With the publication of its twentieth volume, the well-known Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Painting has undergone a major facelift. As explained by the authors in their Introduction, some of the points [...] Read More
The Northern Renaissance (Art & Ideas)
In line with the aims of Phaidon’s “Art & Ideas” series, Jeffrey Chipps Smith has written a portable and reasonably priced introduction to the period for students and the general reader. His [...] Read More