14th and 15th Centuries

Jérome Bosch et son entourage et autres études

By Hélène Verougstraete and Roger van Schoute

Leuven, Paris, Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2003. 367 pp, 146 b&w illus., 91 color. ISBN 90-429-1368-1

Review published November 2004

This volume is number 14 of the Le dessins sous-jacent et la technologie dans la peinture series, which has been edited and organized biannually since 1975 by the indefatigable team of Hélène [...] Read More

Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold, 800-1475

By Adelaide Louise Bennett, et al.

[Cat. exh. Stedelijk Museum Vander Kelen-Mertens, Leuven, September 21 - December 8, 2002.] Turnhout: Brepols; Leuven: Davidsfonds, 2002. 342 pp, col. illus. ISBN: 90-582-6209-X (Davidsfonds); 2-503-52211-4 (Brepols)

Review published April 2004

The history of the illuminated codex, as the exhibition catalogueMedieval Mastery reminds us, more or less coincides with the Middle Ages. The centrality of reading and writing to medieval life and [...] Read More

Recent Developments in the Technical Examination of Early Netherlandish Painting: Methodology, Limitations, & Perspectives

By Molly Faries and Ron Spronk (eds.), with contributions by Maryan Wynn Ainsworth, J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer, E. Melanie Gifford, Susana Halpine, Teri Hensick, Peter Klein, Henry Lie, Suzanne Quilllen Lomax, Gianfranco Pocobene, and Michael R. Schilling

Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums; Turnhout: Brepols, 2003. 213 pp, numerous b&w illus., 30 color plates. ISBN 1-891771-35-3

Review published April 2004

This volume functions as the proceedings of the 1996 Harvard University symposium held in conjunction with the opening of the expanded Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, the [...] Read More

lluminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe

By Thomas Kren, Scott McKendrick et al.

Cat. exh. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 17 - September 7, 2003; The Royal Academy, London, November 25, 2003–February 22, 2004. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003. 575 pp, 232 color and 153 b&w illus. ISBN 0-89236-703-2 (hardcover), ISBN 0-89236-704-0 (paperback)

Review published December 2003

The exhibition 'Illuminating the Renaissance' celebrates the flowering of Flemish manuscript illumination between c.1470 and 1560, a century in which illuminators achieved remarkable mastery of color, [...] Read More

The Spitz Master. A Parisian Book of Hours

By Gregory T. Clark

Los Angeles: Getty Museum Studies on Art, 2003. 98 pp, 65 illus., 41 color illus. ISBN 0-89236-712-1.

Review published December 2003

After his death in 1416, Jean, Duke of Berry, was remembered throughout the fifteenth century as a patron of the arts. Readers of Froissart, for example, learned that Jean was fond of speaking with [...] Read More

Jean Prévost: Le Maître de Moulins

By Albert Châtelet

With a contribution by J. R. J. van Asperen de Boer, Paris: Gallimard, 2001. 207 pp, 87 color, 27 b&w illus. ISBN 2-07-011685-9

Review published April 2003

Albert Châtelet's goal in this book is clear from its title: to identify the Master of Moulins, named after a triptych of the Virgin and Child Adored by Angels with Saints and Donors in Moulins [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

14th and 15th Centuries