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
14th and 15th Centuries
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
Layers of Illusion: The Mayer van den Bergh Breviary
In 1994, the Mayer van den Bergh Breviary was loosed by conservators from the restrictive neo-Gothic binding that had discouraged both scholarly perusal and photography and carefully dismantled. Its [...] Read More