16th Century

Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Proteus: Studies in Early Modern Identity Formation, 1)

By Reindert L. Falkenburg, Walter S. Melion, and Todd M. Richardson (eds.)

Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. XXXII + 483 pp, 12 color and 161 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-52068-1

Review published April 2009

This volume is the first in the series Proteus: Studies in Early Modern Identity Formation, and it is based on papers from the first Lovis Corinth Colloquium, held at Emory University in April 2003. [...] Read More

Making and Marketing: Studies of the Painting Process in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Workshops

By Molly Faries (ed.), with contributions by Maryan Ainsworth, Molly Faries, Maria Galassi, Liesbeth M. Helmus, Linda Jansen, Micha Leeflang, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Daantnje Meuwissen, Natasja Peeters, Ron Spronk, Anne H. van Buren, Catharina van Daalen, Roger van Schoute, Hélène Verougstraete, and Margreet Wolters

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2006. 279 pp, 162 illus., 40 color plates. ISBN 2-503-51605-X

Review published November 2008

Few individuals have made as many, or as significant, contributions to the field of “technical art history” than Molly Faries. Through her solo research studies, her collaborative partnerships with [...] Read More

Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty. Tapestries at the Tudor Court

By Thomas P. Campbell

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 440 pp, 206 color, 114 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12234-3

Review published April 2008

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Florissant: Bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis der Nederlanden (15de – 17de eeuw). Liber Amicorum Carl Van de Velde

By Arnout Balis, Paul Huvenne, Jeanine Lambrecht, and Christine Van Mulders, eds.

Brussels: VUB Press, 2005. 398 pp, numerous b&w illus. ISBN 90-5487-369-8

Review published April 2008

The writings of Carl Van de Velde are well-known to all students of Netherlandish art. The publication Florissant – its title a play on one of Van de Velde’s favorite subjects – serves as a [...] Read More

Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545-c. 1589, Portrait of a Calvinist Painter (Pictura Nova, XIV)

By Koenraad Jonckheere

Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. 396 pp, 41 col. and 207 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-52554-9

Review published November 2007

Until the publication of this dedicated rescue operation, Adriaen Thomasz. has been one of the most ill-defined artists working in Antwerp during the turbulent times of the second half of the [...] Read More

Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter

By Walter Gibson

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 287 pp, 84 illus. ISBN 10: 052045210

Review published November 2007

In the Prologue, Walter Gibson describes his book as a more detailed version of the study of laughter that extends the fourth chapter of his earlier book, Pleasant Places (2000). However, here the [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century