14th and 15th Centuries

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

El secreto de los flamencos

By Federico Andahazi

Buenos Aires: Editorial Planeta, 2002. 254 pp. ISBN 950-49-0975-2

Review published November 2004

What do HNA members read when they go on holidays? Some of us carry a lot of new books and catalogues, discussed in the HNA Newsletters; others buy a good novel or thriller and try to forget HNA for a [...] Read More

Guide pratique de l’historian de l’art débutant, 2nd edition

By Roger Van Schoute and Hélène Verougstraete

Louvain-la-Neuve, 2004 (c.1998); 213pp., 20 b&w illus. ISBN 2-930314-03-6 (UCL); ISBN 2-87209-741-4 (Bruylant-Acedemia)

Review published November 2004

A budding Jacquemart de Hesdin scholar from Mons or a slightly overwhelmed college freshman from Namur would do well to pick up this lucidly crafted volume, designed to guide them over the practical [...] Read More

Stefan Lochner: Image Making in Fifteenth-Century Cologne

By Julien Chapuis

Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. 331pp, 224 b&w illus., 69 color plates. ISBN 2-503-50567-8

Review published November 2004

The first monograph on Stefan Lochner since 1938, this is a beautifully-produced volume in Maryan Ainsworth's admirable Me fecit. series with excellent color and many detailed photographs. The author, [...] Read More

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

14th and 15th Centuries