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
14th and 15th Centuries
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
Tributes to Maryan W. Ainsworth: Collaborative Spirit: Essays on Northern European Art, 1350-1650
This marvelous Festschrift’s subtitle Collaborative Spirit captures one of the defining characteristics of Maryan Ainsworth’s celebrated career as a curator, teacher, and prolific scholar. The three [...] Read More
Early Colour Printing. German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum
German printmakers of the early sixteenth century were the first to experiment with color printing, using multiple woodblocks for each tone to create composite images, often called “chiaroscuro [...] Read More
Between Hell and Paradise: The Enigmatic World of Hieronymus Bosch
This book represents the first major exhibition catalog produced after the 2016 celebration of the 500th anniversary of Bosch’s death, which occasioned the publication of catalogs from exhibitions in [...] Read More
Harmony in Bright Colors: Memling’s God the Father with Singing and Music-Making Angels Restored
Based on the 2017 symposium organized to celebrate the culmination of the sixteen-year conservation of Hans Memling’s God the Father with Singing and Music-Making Angels (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, [...] Read More