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
16th Century
National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings with French Paintings before 1600
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
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