Shira Brisman begins what is likely to become an important text for both the history of art and material culture studies with a declaration of what the book is not: “This is not a book about how [...] Read More
16th Century
Painter to the Queen: Michel Sittow, Courtier to Isabella of Castile and the Habsburg Dynasty (Courts and Courtiers in a Global Context, Vol. 2)
Oskar Rojewski has made an important contribution to the study of the Tallinn (Reval)-born painter Michel Sittow (1468/1469-1525), who enjoyed an extraordinary career at the courts of Renaissance [...] Read More
Maarten van Heemskerck. Das Römische Zeichnungsbuch (facsimile edition).
Introduction: Few objects are more compelling to the art historian than artists' drawing books. Their particular appeal is the direct access these books provide to private artistic practice: how [...] Read More
Willem Key and Adriaen Thomasz. Key: Fresh Perspectives on Their Oeuvres (Pictura Nova: Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, XXVIII)
In 2007, Koenraad Jonckheere published a monograph on the relatively little-known, under-studied Antwerp painter, Adriaen Thomasz. Key: Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545 - c. 1589): Portrait of a [...] Read More
Early Netherlandish Drawings 1400-1600
Accompanying an exhibition of its spectacular holdings of Netherlandish drawings, the British Museum has issued its richly illustrated definitive catalogue of collection highlights, the first in [...] Read More
Beached Whale Images in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp. Symbols of Humanity’s Dominion over the Earth
Today, when a whale of any kind (what Ryan Gregg often calls “cetaceous units”) gets stranded on a beach, support is mobilized to keep the animal hydrated and to prepare the creature for return to the [...] Read More