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
16th Century
Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity
Marisa Bass has written an important reinterpretation of Jan Gossart’s mythological nude paintings, an erudite and valuable contribution to the recent wave of scholarship on the artist. Her research [...] Read More
In Search of Utopia. Art and Science in the Era of Thomas More
At a time when the largest municipal museums in Belgium, both Antwerp and Brussels, are undergoing repairs and are withdrawn from major exhibitions, M, the Leuven Museum, has stepped up with important [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination
The works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder transfix viewers and vex interpreters. When Karel van Mander wrote that one could not look at Bruegel’s works without laughing, he spoke to the immersive [...] Read More
The Neptune Fountain in Bologna: Bronze, Marble, & Water in the Making of a Papal City
Published posthumously, Richard Tuttle’s excellent analysis of Giambologna’s Neptune Fountain in Bologna is insightful, well written, and beautifully illustrated. Its focus on a single monument, [...] Read More
The Seventh Window: The King’s Window Donated by Philip II and Mary Tudor to Sint Janskerk in Gouda (1557)
The Seventh Window is an anthology conceptualized and edited by Wim de Groot, which brings together twenty-one scholars from various fields and countries to ruminate over one of King Philip II of [...] Read More