Some artists fall between stools in modern scholarship, because their country of origin no longer corresponds to contemporary boundaries, or else because their movements across boundaries fail to [...] Read More
16th Century
Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History)
In the course of his long and distinguished career, Larry Silver has published twelve books on Northern Renaissance art. His extraordinary productivity in this field is complemented by additional [...] Read More
The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe; Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America
Stephanie Porras, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023, 186 pp, ISBN 9780271092836. [...] Read More
Baroque Influencers: Jesuits, Rubens and the Arts of Persuasion; Jesuit Art (Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies)
The interest in the Society of Jesus has exploded in the last few decades. Jesuit art and religious culture have been the subjects of a remarkable number of books, exhibition catalogues, and [...] Read More
Holbein at the Tudor Court
The spectacular 2021 Holbein portraiture exhibition, organized by Anne Woollett for the J. Paul Getty Museum and shown also at the Morgan Library & Museum (to be reviewed), might seem as if there [...] Read More
Melchior Lorck: An Artist in Transit
The Royal Collection of Graphic Art at The National Museum of Denmark (SMK) holds what is perhaps the world’s largest collection of works by Melchior Lorck (1526/7 – 1583). The exhibition Melchior [...] Read More