16th Century

Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 267/19)

By Edward Wouk

Leiden: Brill, 2018. 808 pp, 391 illus. ISBN 978-90-04-30725-4.

Review published July 2018

Apparently they do make artist monographs the way they used to do. This massive tome, dedicated to one of the great yet neglected Netherlandish artists of the sixteenth century, fills a massive [...] Read More

Bosch & Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life (Bollingen Series XXXV: 57)

By Joseph Leo Koerner

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. 414 pp. 324 illus. ISBN 978-0-69117-228-6.

Review published June 2018

Deftly argued and fluently written, Koerner’s enthralling book is a revised and amplified version of the A. W. Mellon Lectures he delivered at The National Gallery of Art in 2007. He juxtaposes Bosch [...] Read More

Netherlandish Sculpture of the 16th Century (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek / Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, 67)

By Ethan Matt Kavaler, Frits Scholten, and Joanna Woodall, eds.

Leiden: Brill, 2017. 404 pp, 236 colored illus. ISBN 978-90-04-36073-0.

Review published June 2018

Volume 67 of the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, is titled Netherlandish Sculpture of the 16th Century and edited by Ethan Matt Kavaler, Frits Scholten, and Joanna Woodall. As Kavaler articulates [...] Read More

Workshop Practice in Early Netherlandish Painting: Case Studies from Van Eyck through Gossart (Me Fecit)

By Maryan W. Ainsworth, ed.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 136 pp, 112 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-56668-9.

Review published March 2018

Workshop Practice in Early Netherlandish Painting: Case Studies from Van Eyck through Gossart, showcases cutting-edge developments in the longstanding and fruitful nexus between technical art history [...] Read More

Studies in Western Tapestry

By Iain Buchanan and Jacqueline Thibault Schaefer

Iain Buchanan, Habsburg Tapestries (Studies in Western Tapestry, vol. 4). Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. 373 pp, color and b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-51670-7.

Jacqueline Thibault Schaefer, The Brussels Tristan Tapestries: Myth Regenerated in Wool, Silk & Precious Threads (Studies in Western Tapestry, vol. 6). Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. 147 pp, color and b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-45982-8.

Review published January 2018

These entries in the Studies in Western Tapestry series testify to the variety of approaches to their subject. Iain Buchanan is an art historian with numerous tapestry publications, while Jacqueline [...] Read More

Niklaus Manuel. Catalogue raisonné

By Michael Egli and Hans Christoph von Tavel, with essays by Petra Barton Sigrist

Zurich, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft and Bern, Burgerbibliothek. Basel: Verlag Schwabe, 2017. 2 vols., 916 pp. ISBN 978-3796536304.

Review published December 2017

While this year marks a half-millennium of the Reformation, that story is limited by its German bias, to the neglect of the movement in Switzerland, which climaxed in Bern and Basel in 1529. One of [...] Read More

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16th Century