16th Century

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

By Joaneath Spicer, ed.

Cat. exh. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, October 14, 2012 – January 21, 2013; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, February 16 – June 9, 2013. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2012. 144 pp, 54 illus., most color, 80 thumbnails. ISBN 978-0-911886-78-8

Review published April 2013

Scholarship remains cumulative. The bracing ripple effects of resuming the project on The Image of the Black in Western Art are still being felt. First some of the main contributors to the crucial [...] Read More

Art after Iconoclasm. Painting in the Netherlands between 1566 and 1585

By Koenraad Jonckheere and Ruben Suykerbuyk, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. 130 pp, 62 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-54596-7

Review published April 2013

Extending the insights in his own new book, Antwerp after Iconoclasm(Yale/ Mercatorfonds, 2012; reviewed separately), Koen Jonckheere has also co-edited a complementary anthology of essays on the same [...] Read More

Antwerp Art after Iconoclasm. Experiments in Decorum 1566-1585

By Koenraad Jonckheere

Brussels: Mercatorfonds and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 311 pp. 242 illus., most in color. ISBN978-0-300-18869-1

Review published April 2013

Like any history, Netherlandish art has its awkward in-between stages. In the early modern instance, this neglected period is defined by the generation between the death of Bruegel and before the [...] Read More

De Cartons van de Sint-Janskerk in Gouda/ The Cartoons of the Sint-Janskerk in Gouda

By Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Arjan R. de Koomen, Antonie L.H. Hage and Jan Piet Filedt Kok, eds.

Delft: Eburon Academic Publishers, distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2011. 320 pp, 161 col. and 44 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-5972-524-9

Review published April 2013

This beautifully produced volume presents all the cartoons, now newly restored, associated with the monumental glazing program of the Sint-Janskerk in Gouda, one of the most important series of [...] Read More

Dürer and Beyond. Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700

By Stijn Alsteens and Freyda Spira, eds.

With contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Dirk H. Breiding, George R. Goldner, Guido Messling, Marjorie Shelley and Joshua P. Waterman. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 3 – September 3, 2012. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press 2012. xvi, 256 pp, 318 color, 8 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-58839-451-4

Review published April 2013

Over the past two decades and under the leadership of George Goldner, the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Drawings and Prints has built up its holdings in areas that were previously [...] Read More

The Bruegel Phenomenon. Paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger with a Special Focus on Technique and Copying Practice (Scientia Artis, 8)

By Christina Currie and Dominique Allart

Brussels: Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, 2012. 3 vols, fully illus. ISBN 978-2-930054-14-8

Review published November 2012

Bruegel is our superstar of the secular. Every year, legions of fans flock to Vienna to experience Bruegel’s depictions of glorious vulgarity, the common man celebrated with uncommon virtuosity and [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century