Goldstein’s book is the third volume on Bruegel published by Ashgate in as many years (Margaret Sullivan’s 2010 Bruegel and the Creative Process, 1559-1563, reviewed [...] Read More
16th Century
Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art. Essays on Comedy as Social Vision
Comedy and laughter in the Early Modern period have been little addressed by scholarship, though Stephen Greenblatt and others have attended to laughter and Shakespeare (2004). Walter Gibson’s Pieter [...] Read More
Understanding Art in Antwerp. Classicising the Popular, Popularising the Classic (1540-1580). (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 45)
This volume addresses the interchange between what is often described as the native or vernacular tradition in Antwerp and the foreign or classical one as it was imported into that city. This [...] Read More
Spectacle, Rhetoric and Power: The Triumphal Entry of Prince Philip of Spain into Antwerp (Ludus: Medieval and Early Renaissance Theatre and Drama 11)
Spectacle, Rhetoric and Power by Stijn Bussels is certainly a valuable, praiseworthy contribution to the growing literature on Netherlandish festivals. It offers a thorough monographic study of the [...] Read More
Stradanus 1523-1605: Court Artist of the Medici
Alessandra Baroni, Manfred Sellink, curator Till-Holger Borchert (one of the members of the exhibition committee), and a team of scholars have collaborated to produce this informative and handsome [...] Read More
Rom zeichnen. Maarten van Heemskerck 1532-1536/37 (Humboldt-Schriften zur Kunst- und Bildgeschichte VIII)
Published as volume 8 in the Humboldt-Schriften zur Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, this instructive volume on Maarten van Heemkerck’s Roman drawings is a welcome addition to Van Heemskerck scholarship. [...] Read More