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
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)
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
Krone und Schleier: Kunst in mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern
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
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