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16th Century

A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections, [II B]: Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings

By Burton L. Dunbar, Robert Munman and Edward J. Olszewski, eds., with the assistence of Dawn E. Sanders

London: Harvey Miller Publishers; Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2012. xxiv, 253 pp, b&w illus. and 7 col. pls. ISBN 978-1-905375-11-0

Review published November 2013

Rarely does one see any catalogue about Northern drawings from the sixteenth century, let alone one that illustrates works from across the Midwest of the United States. The very appearance of this [...] Read More

The New Ideal of Beauty in the Age of Pieter Bruegel. Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

By Teréz Gerszi, assisted by Bernadett Tóth

Budapest: Szépmüvészeti Múzeum 2012. 240 pp, 203 color illus. ISBN 978-963-7063-93-0

Review published November 2013

The remarkable doyenne of sixteenth-century Netherlandish drawings has done it again, this time on her home court. Teréz Gerszi has been publishing on the Bruegel era and its wider frame in time and [...] Read More

Ut pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500-1700 (Proteus 4)

By Walter S. Melion, Ralph Dekoninck and Agnes Guideroni-Bruslé, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2012. xxi, 479 pp, 10 col. pls, 155 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-53583-8

Review published November 2013

The essays in this volume began as papers delivered at the second Lovis Corinth Colloquium, held at Emory University in 2006. Six have been substantially expanded, and the quality of all but the last [...] Read More

The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400-1700 (Intersections 20)

By Celeste Brusati, Karl A.E. Enenkel and Walter S. Melion, eds.

Leiden: Brill 2012. Xl, 708 pp, 210 b&w illus., 20 color plates. ISBN 978-90-04-21515-3

Review published November 2013

One of the edges of current scholarship interrogates the constructed boundary between words and images. This collection of twenty essays, originally papers presented at the Third Lovis Corinth [...] Read More

The Trans-formation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts (Intersections 19)

By Joost Keizer and Todd M. Richardson, eds

Leiden: Brill 2011. xix, 402 pp, 73 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-04-21204-6

Review published November 2013

The present volume, part of Intersections, Brill’s interdisciplinary series on early modern culture, contains eleven essays and an introduction with a broad geographic, temporal and material scope. [...] Read More

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

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