Surely for scholars the most important contribution that a museum curator can provide is a systematic catalogue of the paintings in the permanent collection, the more so in a major collection. Thus [...] Read More
16th Century
Weltzeit und Endzeit Die “Monatsbilder” Pieter Bruegels d. Ä
Kaschek’s book, based on his doctoral dissertation completed at the Technische Universität Dresden, offers a radical reassessment of Bruegel’s famous series The Months. Kaschek ultimately reads the [...] Read More
Herri met de Bles: Les Ruses du paysage au temps du Bruegel et d’Érasme
Those familiar with Michel Weemans’s recent books, as contributor to the exhibition catalogue, Fables du paysage flamande: Bosch, Bles, Brueghel, Bril, edited by Alain Tapie (Palais des Beaux-Arts, [...] Read More
Érasme. Éloge da la folie illustré par les peintres de la Renaissance du Nord
Probably no other subject from the early years of emerging "secular" art in the Low Countries recurs as frequently as folly in all its guises. And, of course, no text of the early sixteenth century [...] Read More
Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print
During the third quarter of the sixteenth century, Antwerp’s Hieronymus Cock (1518 - 1570) was the most important publisher of printed imagery north of the Alps, if not in all Europe. Fittingly, he [...] Read More
The Flemish Primitives VI: The Bernard van Orley Group. Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
At long last, the Flemish painters whose gaze turned towards Renaissance Italy are receiving their scholarly (and public) due. Sparking this “Northern Ren” turn, Maryan Ainsworth’s seminal Jan Gossart [...] Read More