Almost a missing link between the most celebrated pioneer engravers of the fifteenth century, Master ES and Martin Schongauer, is a less familiar figure, the Upper Rhenish printmaker Israhel van [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
Remember Me. Renaissance Portraits
This book was published as the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Rijksmuseum from October 1, 2021 to January 16, 2022, but it easily stands alone as an engaging introduction to the artistic and [...] Read More
Alabaster Sculpture in Europe, 1300-1650
For much of the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period, alabaster was often the material of choice for sculptors in various European centers, creating works ranging from the intimate to the [...] Read More
Jean Bellegambe (c. 1470‒1535/36): Making, Meaning and Patronage of His Works
Anna Koopstra’s book, Jean Bellegambe (c. 1470‒1535/36): Making, Meaning and Patronage of His Works, is a helpful intervention, as the first published volume on this Douaisian painter since 1890. The [...] Read More
Images and Indulgences in Early Netherlandish Painting
Indulgences have had a bad press. Reviled as the epitome of Catholic greed and the lurid practice that sparked the Reformation, to this day they are cast in a negative light. This view overlooks the [...] Read More
Giusto di Gand e la Comunione del Duca d’Urbino
This welcome book by an established scholar of artistic relations between Urbino and the Netherlands is the first monograph on Justus of Ghent since Jacques Lavalleye’s of 1936. Since then, many [...] Read More