Museum dossier publications on single artists or single artworks hold a special place on the library shelves of Netherlandish art scholars. After Louvre publications set an early standard, the [...] Read More
16th Century
Death, Torture, and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300-1650 (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
Conference volumes devoted to big themes in cultural history offer three kinds of opportunities for creating coherence. They may seek, like German Beiträge, to add important new case studies, [...] Read More
Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt
As its title indicates, this book attempts to take a broader view at a much debated topic: the interpretation of landscape representations in northern Europe between ca. 1400 and 1670. Bakker is not [...] Read More
Trading Values in Early Modern Antwerp
Readers of this review need no introduction to the NKJ, which is still publishing important annual volumes on designated themes. This latest volume punningly plays on the term "values" to designate [...] Read More
Cornelis Engebrechtsz (c. 1460-1527). A Sixteenth-Century Leiden Artist and his Workshop (Me Fecit, 6)
During the last decade, a growing body of literature has redefined our views of many leading Netherlandish artists working in the first half of the sixteenth century. These studies include the [...] Read More
Grand Design. Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry
Two important publications have appeared on the art of tapestry maker, painter, printer, publisher, and stained glass designer, Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Aelst, 1502 – Brussels, 1550). The main work is [...] Read More