16th Century

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

Jan de Beer. Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp (Me fecit)

By Dan Ewing

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016. vi, 385 pp, 62 b&w, 203 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-55531-7.

Review published October 2017

Dan Ewing has written an impressive and essential book about one of the most important but least understood painters of Antwerp. In his famous description of the city, the Italian merchant and [...] Read More

The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels. Drama, Ceremony, and Art Patronage (16th-17th Centuries) (Studies in European Urban History [1100-1800], 37)

By Emily S. Thelen, ed.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. xii, 168 pp, 25 b&w illus., 4 tables. ISBN 978-2-503-55333-7

Review published April 2017

The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels: Drama, Ceremony, and Art Patronage (16th-17th Centuries) makes a fascinating contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on early modern confraternities. [...] Read More

Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution. Flanders, vol. 3: The Provinces of Flemish Brabant and Limburg (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklist Series, vol. 3)

By C.J. Berserik and J.M.C. Caen

Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. 562 pp, numerous color and b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-79528-24-0

Review published April 2017

This weighty publication completes the third installment of C.J. Berserik’s and J.M.A. Caen’s monumental checklist of Netherlandish painted-glass roundels preserved in Belgian public and private [...] Read More

Art as History, History as Art: Jheronimus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Assembling Knowledge, not Setting Puzzles (Nijmegen Art Historical Studies, XXI)

By Stephen Graham Hitchins

Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. xx, 420pp, 100 b&w, 170 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-55455-6

Review published April 2017

How should one write about historical objects in an era of rising right-wing extremism, populist nationalism, and various flavors of separatism? At a time when disparities of wealth have taken on [...] Read More

Jan de Beer. Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp (Me fecit)

By Dan Ewing

Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. vi, 385 pp, 62 b&w, 203 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-55531-7

Review published April 2017

This handsome, well-illustrated book represents a culmination of Dan Ewing’s work on Jan de Beer and will take its place as the standard monograph on this artist for some time to come. For the most [...] Read More

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16th Century