The massive polyptych known as The Ghent Altarpiece (Ghent, Cathedral of Saint Bavo) is one of the key monuments in the history of art. Originally comprised of twelve panels including nineteen [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe
In her latest book, Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe, Caroline Walker Bynum delves even deeper into the material world of the devotional object during the long Middle [...] Read More
Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklists. Flanders, 4: Addenda); Medium-Sized Panels and Fragments of Stained-Glass Windows before the French Revolution (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklists. Flanders, 5)
C.J. Berserik and J.M.A. Caen, Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklists. Flanders, 4: Addenda). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, [...] Read More
The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Multiplied and Modified
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
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