Karen Bowen and Dirk Imhof have written a major contribution to the literature on the Plantin Press in Antwerp, with special relevance for scholars of the history of printmaking. Imhof, a curator at [...] Read More
16th Century
The Fool’s Journey. A Myth of Obsession in Northern Renaissance Art
The pronounced investment in the theme of folly exhibited by the visual culture of early modern northern Europe forms the subject of Yona Pinson’s new volume. Though the object of considerable [...] Read More
Three Books on Northern Altarpieces
Brigitte D’Hainaut-Zveny, Les retables d’autel gothiques sculptés dans les anciens Pays-Bas. Raisons, formes et usages. Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts, 2008. 437 pp, 50 [...] Read More
Anthonis Mor. Art and Authority (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 8)
Anthonis Mor (1516/21-1576/78), painter to Philip II since 1554, left the Spanish court for the Netherlands in the autumn of 1561. The circumstances of his departure remain shrouded in speculation. [...] Read More
Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival Imagery
In many ways Stewart's book is suggestive and ambitious. Revisiting the subject of her 1986 Columbia dissertation, Stewart deftly inserts her material into a number of significant art historical and [...] Read More
Four Publications on Lucas Cranach
Gerhard Ermischer and Andreas Tacke (eds.), Cranach im Exil. Aschaffenburg um 1540. Zuflucht – Schatzkammer – Residenz. [Cat. exh. Museen der Stadt Aschaffenburg, February 24 – June 3, 2007.] [...] Read More