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
16th Century
The Liefrinck Dynasty. The New Hollstein. Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700
In the history of European printmaking, engravers seem to get all the ink. In contrast, woodcut designers, let alone their block cutters, often remain obscure, and only during the past generation, [...] 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
Many Antwerp Hands. Collaborations in Netherlandish Art
Growing out of a 2018 conference at the Rubenianum in Antwerp, this cluster of essays interrogates a significant phenomenon in Antwerp painting, especially from the seventeenth century: collaboration [...] 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
Maarten van Heemskerck. Römische Studien zwischen Sachlichkeit und Imagination
Tatjana Bartsch’s book on Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574, in Rome 1532–c. 1537) delivers the most thorough analysis to date of the artist’s extant corpus of Roman drawings. As renowned as is [...] Read More
Flesh, Gold and Wood: The Saint-Denis Altarpiece in Liège and the Question of Partial Paint Practices in the Sixteenth Century
This book contains twenty articles (about half in English and half in French, all with English abstracts) from a 2015 international symposium held at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage [...] Read More
Vie de Lambert Lombard (1565)
Dominicus Lampsonius has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the historiography of European art. He is perhaps best known for his role as the author of Latin inscriptions on the Effigies [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel, Mayken Verhulst en Mechelen. Het begin van een wonderlijke Schildersdynastie
This useful yet curious volume is actually a reprint, updated with new archival findings of a 2005 volume (Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus Museum) with a similar title, Mayken Verhulst. De turkse Manieren [...] Read More
Mary of Hungary, Renaissance Patron and Collector. Gender, Art and Culture
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
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
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
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
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
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