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
16th Century
Cut in Alabaster. A Material of Sculpture and its European Traditions 1330-1530
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
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.
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
Erudite Eyes: Friendship, Art and Erudition in the Network of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 14)
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
Netherlandish Culture of the Sixteenth Century (Studies in European Urban History, 41)
Part of a series about urban history and culture (Bruaene of Ghent University is one of the series’ editors), this new anthology (based on a 2012 conference) offers nineteen impressive articles on a [...] Read More