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
14th and 15th Centuries
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
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