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

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

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

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

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

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