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
16th Century
Antwerp Art after Iconoclasm. Experiments in Decorum 1566-1585
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
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
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)
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
The Early Dürer
After four decades of professional study, I realize that exhibitions are cyclical, coming around every generation, whether for artists at the Museum of Modern Art (Pollock, Bonnard) or leading old [...] Read More