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
16th Century
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
Geteiltes Leid: Die Passion Christi in Bildern und Texten der Konfessionalisierung
Geteiltes Leid brings together a number of fields normally discrete from one another: the Passion, word and image, confessionalization. With growing interest in the body, psychological formation, and [...] Read More
The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris – Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria
Art historical publications in English are paying increasing attention to artists active in what is called Germany today. Life and works of the most famous early modern artists in Germany, especially [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel
The art of Pieter Bruegel is enjoying a renaissance. This is not limited to art historians, for whom the Bruegel scholarship industry has been in high gear for several decades. The artist's appeal [...] Read More
Willem Key (1516 – 1568): Portrait of a Humanist Painter, with an Appendix to the Oeuvre of Adriaen Thomasz. Key (Pictura Nova, XVII: Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing)
In 2007, Koenraad Jonckheere published a study of the Antwerp painter, Adriaen Thomasz. Key, under Brepols’s “Pictura Nova” imprint (Adriaen Thomasz. Key (ca. 1545 – ca. 1589): Portrait of a Calvinist [...] Read More