In recent years there has been a great upsurge of interest in the marketing of Netherlandish art. A critical resource for these studies is documentary information, especially that provided by [...] Read More
16th Century
The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
In his Nova Reperta (c. 1590-1693), a visual repertory of the modern age’s inventions, Jan van der Straet used the same pictorial strategies to present innovations in alchemy, medicine and painterly [...] Read More
Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in Sixteenth-Century Europe
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
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