Because of its location in the geographical center of the continental United States, the Nelson-Atkins Museum is perhaps less familiar than its peers, but it offers artistic treasures from almost all [...] Read More
16th Century
Women of Distinction: Margaret of York, Margaret of Austria
Last fall, as part of a year-long celebration, "Mechelen 2005: City in Female Hands," the city of Mechelen mounted a major exhibition, "Dames met Klasse: Margareta van York en Margareta van [...] Read More
Albrecht Dürer and the Venetian Renaissance
Katherine Crawford Luber begins her ground-breaking book on Dürer and Venice by showing that the present art historical emphasis on Dürer's prints, rather than his paintings, and the related division [...] Read More
De Schilderijen van Museum Catharijneconvent
To review a pictorial handbook is not easy. This volume provides the equivalent of what P.J.J. van Thiel and the Rijksmuseum produced a generation ago, All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum in [...] Read More
Two Books on Catharina van Hemessen
Marguerite Droz-Emmert, Catharina van Hemessen. Malerin der Renaissance, Basel: Schwabe Verlag 2004. 196 pp, 8 color plates, 29 b&w illus. ISBN: 3-7965-2095-2. Karolien De Clippel, Catharina [...] Read More
The Netherlandish Proverbs. An International Symposium on the Pieter Brueg(h)els
This volume offers a lively record of the proceedings of an international symposium held at the Robert Hull Fleming Museum of the University of Vermont in March, 2004. The topical focus of the [...] Read More