16th Century

The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. III. Part 2: From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition. Europe and the World Beyond

By Jean Michel Massing

Gen. eds. David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 496pp, 271 illus. ISBN 978-0-674-05262-8

Review published April 2012

At last! HNA's readership, dominated by a historical focus on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, has chiefly remained outsiders to the foundational studies of this series of references about the [...] Read More

Three Books on Pieter Bruegel

By various authors

Review published November 2011

Walter Gibson, Figures of Speech: Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xv, 236 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-0-520-25954-6. Gerald [...] Read More

Two Books on Pieter Bruegel the Elder

By various authors

Review published November 2011

Walter Gibson, Figures of Speech: Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xv, 236 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-0-520-25954-6. Gerald [...] Read More

Dürer’s Fame

By Christian Tico Seifert

[Cat. exh. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, June 9 – October 11, 2011.] Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2011. 48 pp, 32 illus. ISBN 978-1-906270-41-4

Review published November 2011

An old saying goes: if you find yourself surrounded by lemons, make lemonade. Although the National Gallery of Scotland owns a major Holbein, Law and Grace, ca. 1535 (see Hans Holbein the Younger, the [...] Read More

Exhibition Catalogs on Joos van Cleve and Lucas van Leyden

By various authors

Review published November 2011

Peter van den Brink, in collaboration with Alice Taatgen and Heinrich Becker, Joos van Cleve: Leonardo des Nordens. Cat. exh. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, March 17 – June 26, 2011. Stuttgart: [...] Read More

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

By Susan Dackerman, ed.

Cat. exh. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, September 6 -December 11, 2011; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, January 17 - April 8, 2012. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press. 442pp, 102 illustrated entries. ISBN 978-0-300-17107-5

Review published November 2011

Susan Dackerman has done it again. Her first major print exhibition dropped jaws and opened eyes to an early graphic phenomenon known only partially but originally widespread: Painted Prints [...] Read More