14th and 15th Centuries

The Mayer van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp (Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège, 20)

By Hélène Mund, Cyriel Stroo, Nicole Goetghebeur, with the collaboration of Hans Nieuwdorp

Brussels: Centre dÉtude de la Peinture du Quinzième Siècle dans les Pays-Bas Méridionaux et la Principauté de Liège, 2003. 468 pp, color and b&w illus, including many details. ISBN 2-87033-011-1

Review published November 2005

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)

By Jeffrey Chipps Smith

London/ New York: Phaidon, 2004. 447 pp, 241 illus. (many in color), ISBN 0-7148-3867-5

Review published November 2005

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

By Brigitte Dekeyzer

Published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Het Breviarium Mayer van den Bergh, Vorstelijke luxe en devotie’ at the Mayer van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp, October 16, 2004 – January 6, 2005. [Ghent]: Ludion, 2004. 208pp. ISBN 90-5544-534-7

Review published November 2005

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

Krone und Schleier: Kunst in mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern

By Ed. Jeffrey Hamburger, Robert Suckale, et al.

[Cat. exh. Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen: Die frühen Klöster und Stifte 500-1200 / Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn: Die Zeit der Orden 1200-1500.] Essen/Bonn 2005. 583 pp, 780 illus, most in color. ISBN 3-7774-2565-6

Review published November 2005

This vast and visually rich two-part exhibition necessitated multiple visits. The early material (made before 1200) was displayed in the Ruhrlandmuseum in Essen, where the exhibition borrowed the cool [...] Read More

From Flanders to Florence. The Impact of Netherlandish Painting, 1400-1500

By Paula Nuttall

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004. 303 pp, 284 col. and b&w illus. ISBN 0-300-10244-5

Review published April 2005

Paula Nuttall's book addresses the popularity of Netherlandish painting in Italy and its influence on Florentine artists. It does so in four parts: Context, Contacts, Ownership, and Influence. The [...] Read More

Art from the Court of Burgundy, 1364-1419

By Stephen N. Fliegel and Sophia Jugie, et al.

[Cat. exh. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, May 27 - September 15, 2004; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 24, 2004 - January 9, 2005.] Paris and Cleveland: éditions de la Réunion des Musées nationaux and the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2004. 367 pp, illustrated (with some color), map. ISBN 2-7118-4864-7

Review published April 2005

This catalogue - the English language version of L'art à la cour de Bourgogne: le mécénat de Philippe le Hardi et de Jean sans Peur (1364-1419) - accompanied the exhibition commemorating the 600th [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

14th and 15th Centuries