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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
[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.
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
(Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 244 pp, 10 col. plates, 54 b&w illus. ISBN 978-94-6298-374-8 (hardback), 978-90-4853-411-1 (e-book).
As Anne Williams astutely identifies, depictions of Saint Joseph in works of art of the fourteenth to sixteenth century are rife with paradox, a seemingly conflicting combination of ridicule and [...] Read More