The Latin that hovers above the more sober "Manuscripts and their Makers," on the title page of Richard and Mary Rouse’s magisterial two-volume work, is Francis Bacon’s dismissive description of the [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
Hieronymus Bosch in Rotterdam, Two Catalogues
J. Koldeweij, B. Vermet, P. Vandenbroeck, Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Paintings and Drawings [Cat. exh. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September 1 – November 11, 2001]. Rotterdam: Museum [...] Read More
The Holy Kinship. A Medieval Masterpiece
In the Spring of 2001, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum put on show its recently restored Holy Kinship, traditionally attributed to Geertgen tot Sint Jans. Almost twenty years ago, in 1983, the painting had [...] Read More
Hugo van der Goes
Alongside recent studies on Hieronymous Bosch, Robert Campin, and Rogier van der Weyden, this French-language monograph on Hugo van der Goes is the fourth published by Fonds Mercator to focus on an [...] Read More
Hoe bedriechlijck dat die vrouwen zijn’: Vrouwenlisten in de beeldende kunst in de Nederlanden, circa 1350-1650
The power of women was a popular theme for writers and artists from the Middle Ages until the mid-seventeenth century. Such subjects as Samson and Delilah and Aristotle and Phyllis embodied the theme [...] Read More
Of Counselors and Kings: The Three Versions of Pierre Salmon’s ‘Dialogues’
The subject of Anne D. Hedeman’s excellent book is a small group of fifteenth-century manuscripts, rich and idiosyncratic in both conception and execution, of the Dialogues written by Pierre Salmon to [...] Read More