14th and 15th Centuries

Tree of Jesse Iconography in Northern Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

By Susan L. Green

Routledge Research in Art and Religion. London – New York: Routledge, 2019. 244 pp, 76 illus. ISBN: 978-0-367-66473-2.

Review published March 2021

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

By Péter Bokody and Alexander Nagel, eds.

London: Harvey Miller, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2020. 348 pp, 6 b&w and 147 color illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-26-3.

Review published February 2021

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

The Library of the Dukes of Burgundy

By Bernard Bousmanne and Elena Savini, eds.

Brussels: Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) / London: Harvey Miller. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2020. 205 pp, 134 color illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-24-9.

Review published January 2021

In September of 2020, the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels opened a state-of-the-art museum to great fanfare. Its purpose is to offer the public the opportunity to enjoy a rotating exhibit of [...] Read More

Van Eyck

By Maximiliaan Martens, Till-Holger Borchert, Jan Dumolyn, Johan De Smet, and Frederica Van Dam, eds.

Exh. Cat. Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, February 1 – March 12, 2020. London – New York: Thames & Hudson, 2020. 490 pp, 350 color illus. ISBN 978-0-500-02345-7.

Review published December 2020

Many readers will have shared my disappointment at having missed the exhibition Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution, which opened at Ghent’s Museum voor Schone Kunsten on February 1st, 2020, and was [...] Read More

The Ghent Altarpiece: Research and Conservation of the Exterior

By Bart Fransen and Cyriel Stroo, eds.

Contributions to the Study of the Flemish Primitives, 14. Brussels: Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Brussels, 2020. 430 pp, 300 color illus. ISBN 978-2-930054-38-4.

Review published October 2020

As the first in a series about Jan (and Hubert?) van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece (1432), this volume documents the research and conservation treatment of the exterior panels. It is undoubtedly an [...] Read More

Borman. A Family of Northern Renaissance Sculptors

By Marjan Debaene, ed.

[Exh. Cat. M – Museum, Leuven, September 20, 2019 – January 26, 2020.] London / Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2019. 312 pp, 560 color illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-41-6.

Review published June 2020

This edited volume was produced to accompany the much anticipated exhibition Borman and Sons: The Best Sculptors, held at M-Museum Leuven from September 20th, 2019 to January 26th, 2020. Like the [...] Read More

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14th and 15th Centuries