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
16th Century
Drama and Devotion. Heemskerck’s Ecce Homo Altarpiece from Warsaw
Focus exhibitions have emerged to highlight the many pleasures of the Getty Museum (see also the review of the exhibition around Rubens’s Man in Korean Costume in this issue). Often they are [...] Read More
Jan Rombouts: The Discovery of an Early Sixteenth-Century Master in Louvain (Ars Nova 16)
Yvette Bruijnen’s book culminates more than a decade of research in a neglected field: painting in sixteenth-century Leuven (Louvain). Notwithstanding Edward van Even’s magisterial L’ancienne école de [...] Read More
Jan Gossart: The Documentary Evidence (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 65)
Documentary source volumes offer a great resource for the study of Renaissance artists, but they also pose challenges. Compilers of such volumes face not only the labor of transcribing and editing [...] Read More
A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections, [II B]: Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings
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
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