16th Century

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

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century