16th Century

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

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century