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16th Century

Mary of Hungary, Renaissance Patron and Collector. Gender, Art and Culture

By Noelia García Pérez, ed.

Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université de Tours, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: Collection Études Renaissance. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2020. 231 pp, 51 illus in b&w and color. ISBN 978-2-503-58948-0.

Review published March 2021

Feminist art history has recovered early modern women patrons of great importance, most notably in the ground-breaking exhibition, Women of Distinction (Mechelen, 2005; organized by Dagmar [...] Read More

Antwerp in the Renaissance

By Bruno Blondé and Jeroen Puttevils, eds.

Studies in European Urban History, 49. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2020. 315 pp, 61 illus. ISBN 978-2-503-58833-9.

Review published November 2020

Students of visual culture in the cities of the Netherlands have learned to attend to a variety of imagery that formerly were omitted from consideration as "art," especially printed images that also [...] Read More

Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image

By Christopher Heuer

New York: Zone Books, 2019. 262 pp, 69 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1942-13014-7.

Review published June 2020

A frustrated attempt to describe an iceberg opens Into the White, Christopher P. Heuer’s fascinating book on the Arctic as seen and imagined during the European Renaissance. In a pamphlet produced [...] Read More

‘Truly Bright and Memorable’: Jan de Beer’s Renaissance Altarpieces

By Dan Ewing, Peter van den Brink, and Robert Wenley

Exh. cat. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham University, October 25, 2019 – January 19, 2020. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019. 95 pp, 62 color illus. ISBN 978-1-911300-72-4.

Review published April 2020

This slim volume is a catalogue of an “in focus” exhibition, centered around Jan de Beer’s double-sided panel of Joseph and the Suitors and The Nativity in The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, [...] Read More

Renaissance Illuminators in Paris: Artists & Artisans 1500-1715

By Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse

London: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2019. 280 pp, 65 color illus. ISBN: 978-1-912554-28-7.

Review published April 2020

As Richard and Mary Rouse explain in their acknowledgments, “the impetus for this book came from Myra Orth,” whose lifework was the study of illuminated manuscripts of the Renaissance period in [...] Read More

The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510-1610

By Karl A.E. Enenkel

Brill’s Studies in Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, vol. 295-36. Boston – Leiden: Brill, 2018. 460 pp, xxxv, 156 illus. ISBN 978-90-04-38725-6.

Review published March 2020

With its focus on emblems, the present study directly addresses topics of interest to historians of Netherlandish art. This contribution is due to the significant production of emblem books by Dutch [...] Read More

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Religious Art for the Urban Community

By Barbara A. Kaminska

Leiden: Brill, 2019. 241 pp. 37 illus. ISBN 978-90-04-40039-9.

Review published November 2019

Peasant subjects have always received the focus in Pieter Bruegel studies, at the expense of all but a few of his religious subjects. Despite the recent appearance of another volume from Brill, Pieter [...] Read More

Maarten van Heemskerck’s Rome: Antiquity, Memory, and the Cult of Ruins

By Arthur J. DiFuria

Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, volume 287; Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, volume 31. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. 523 pp. 89 color ills. ISBN 978-90-04-38046-2

Review published November 2019

A view of the Septizonium by Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) captures why the artist’s drawings of Roman ruins count among the most evocative and enigmatic images ever made of the oft-depicted [...] Read More

Women. The Art of Power. Three Women from the House of Habsburg

By Sabine Haag, Dagmar Eichberger and Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, eds.

Exh. Cat. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, June 14 – October 7, 2018. Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2018. 190 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-3-99020-178-7.

Review published August 2019

Women, the Art of Power. Three Women from the House of Habsburg translates into English the German catalogue to an exhibition at Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck in 2018. The catalogue explores the [...] Read More

Niederländische Maler in Italien: Künstlerreisen und Kunstrezeption im 16. Jahrhundert

By Maria Harnack

Reflexe der immateriellen und materiellen Kultur, 6. Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. 332 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-3-11-0557428-8.

Review published July 2019

Maria Harnack offers a broad-view examination of sixteenth-century Netherlandish artists in Italy. She begins Chapter One’s first section, travel to the Eternal City, by citing a few key contributors [...] Read More

Prints in Translation, 1450-1750. Image, Materiality, Space

By Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Edward H. Wouk, eds.

London and New York: Routledge, 2017. 252 pp, 21 color pls., 93 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-4724-8012-5.

Review published June 2019

Prints in Translation, 1450-1750, is a wide-ranging volume that aims to mark a fundamental shift in print scholarship. Edited by Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Edward H. Wouk, the volume grew out of a [...] Read More

A Suspect Paradise: Studies on the Left Panel and Detail Symbolism of Hieronymus Bosch’s So-Called “Garden of Earthly Delights.”

By Paul Vandenbroeck

Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, 2017-2018. 260 pp, 149 color illustrations. ISBN 978-90-441-3624-1.

Review published June 2019

The 2017–2018 Annual of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is completely devoted to Paul Vandenbroeck’s writings on Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. The Annual is divided into two parts; the [...] Read More

Cut in Alabaster. A Material of Sculpture and its European Traditions 1330-1530

By Kim W. Woods

Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. 418 pp, 170 color illus., 2 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-909400-26-9. 

Review published May 2019

Kim Woods’s book on alabaster sculpture of the Late Medieval and early modern periods is an important, welcome addition to recent writings on sculpture. Remarkably comprehensive, this is a [...] Read More

Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance

By Suzanne Kathleen Karr Schmidt

(Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Leiden: Brill, 2017, xxvii, 439 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-35413-5.

Review published March 2019

When I first received this book, it fell open at pages 18 and 19, where identical illustrations had been reproduced on each page. I must confess that my first reaction (typical of an academic author [...] Read More

Pieter Bruegel. The Complete Works.

By Jürgen Müller and Thomas Schauerte

Cologne: Taschen, 2018. 492 pp. ISBN 978-3-8365-5689-7

Review published January 2019

The year 2019 has already become the Year of Bruegel, to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the artist's death (ca. 1525-1569). The once-in-a lifetime show in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum [...] Read More

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