Studies in European Urban History, 49. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2020. 315 pp, 61 illus. ISBN 978-2-503-58833-9.
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
New York: Zone Books, 2019. 262 pp, 69 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1942-13014-7.
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
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.
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
London: Harvey Miller Publishers. An Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2019. 280 pp, 65 color illus. ISBN: 978-1-912554-28-7.
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
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.
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
Leiden: Brill, 2019. 241 pp. 37 illus. ISBN 978-90-04-40039-9.
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
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
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
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.
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
Reflexe der immateriellen und materiellen Kultur, 6. Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. 332 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-3-11-0557428-8.
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
London and New York: Routledge, 2017. 252 pp, 21 color pls., 93 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-4724-8012-5.
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
Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, 2017-2018. 260 pp, 149 color illustrations. ISBN 978-90-441-3624-1.
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
Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. 418 pp, 170 color illus., 2 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-909400-26-9.
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
(Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Leiden: Brill, 2017, xxvii, 439 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-35413-5.
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
Cologne: Taschen, 2018. 492 pp. ISBN 978-3-8365-5689-7
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
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2017. Xxii, 324 pp, 156 col. illus. ISBN: 978-90-04-34248-4.
Erudite Eyes considers a range of objects – prints, maps, drawings, poems and paintings – produced by a network of artists, merchants, and humanists around geographer Abraham Ortelius. Foregrounding [...] Read More