14th and 15th Centuries

Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality

By Diane Wolfthal and Deirdre Jackson (curators). Cat. by Diane Wolfthal, with contributions by Steven A. Epstein and David Yoon, and an introduction by Deirdre Jackson.

Exh. Cat. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, November 10, 2023 – March 10, 2024. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, in association with D. Giles Limited, 2023. 232 pp, 153 color illus. ISBN 978-1-913875-37-4.

Review published April 2024

In 1525, the market price of a tapestry like “Honor” (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015.396) – made for Érard de la Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liège – would approximate 108 years of a laborer’s wage. A [...] Read More

Jan van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment: Solving a Conundrum

By Maryan W. Ainsworth, ed.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022. 195 pp, 170 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-59690-7.

Review published February 2024

In the course of a new research project on the Crucifixion and Last Judgment in The Metropolitan Museum of Art – star works, attributed to Jan van Eyck – Maryan Ainsworth and her colleagues made the [...] Read More

Art of Enterprise. Israhel van Meckenem’s 15th-Century Print Workshop

By James Wehn

[Cat. exh. Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 18, 2023-March 24, 2024]. 89pp, 73 illus. ISBN 978-0-932900-62-3.

Review published January 2024

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

Remember Me. Renaissance Portraits

By Sara van Dijk and Matthias Ubl, with contributions by Friso Lammertse and Ilona van Tuinen

Exh. Cat., The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2021. 268 pp. 178 color, 8 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-9032-650-0.

Review published December 2023

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

By Marjan Debaene, ed.

Exh. Cat. M Leuven, October 14, 2022 – February 26, 2023. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2022. 312 pp, 360 col. illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-92-8.

Review published September 2023

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

By Anna Koopstra

Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 156 pp, 119 col. illus. ISBN 978-2-503-57437-0.

Review published May 2023

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

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14th and 15th Centuries