As its title’s use of the word “reception” suggests, this anthology presents essays on responses to prints. The foregrounding of reception may daunt some scholars. After all, as an interpretive model, [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
Copies of Flemish Masters in the Hispanic World: Flandes by Substitution
The fourteen essays in this volume focus on the Spanish reception of Flemish painters and paintings from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The essays are arranged in chronological order and [...] Read More
Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages
When a venerated medievalist who has contributed great insights into the cultural practices of late medieval elites pens a book that distills a life’s work, it is best to pay attention. This is the [...] Read More
Living Pictures. Jan van Eyck and Painting’s First Century
In this ambitious book, Noa Turel argues for a new understanding of the original aims and perception of early Netherlandish painting. Rather than the phenomenal optical realism usually regarded as the [...] Read More
Tree of Jesse Iconography in Northern Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
In this book, Susan Green addresses the polyvalent and dynamic character of iconography, by focusing on how the depictions of the Tree of Jesse variously functioned in the late Middle Ages. According [...] Read More
Renaissance Metapainting
The very cover of this impressive new anthology sends out a contradiction: its images feature details of the Washington Jan van Eyck Annunciation shutter, yet its editors are noted specialists in [...] Read More