Most histories of print collectors and their collections spring from an investigation of the print collection itself. Take for example, Peter Parshall's article on Ferdinand of Tyrol's collection at [...] Read More
16th Century
Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts
One of my students likened our entrance into the galleries of the exhibition, Painted Prints, while on a class trip to Baltimore, to that of Dorothy's stepping into Oz - the moment at which Dorothy [...] Read More
Saints, Sinners, and Sisters: Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This anthology fills a major lacuna in the study of Northern European art. The eleven essays address a range of issues related to women artists, images of women, and theoretical gender concerns. As [...] Read More
Painting for the Market. Commercialization of Art in Antwerp’s Golden Age (Studies in Urban History [1100-1800], 2)
This is the first monographic study based on archival research that is devoted to the Antwerp art market during the 'long' sixteenth century, from 1490 to 1609. Filip Vermeylen's pivotal thesis is [...] Read More
Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels. Volume I: The Infancy Narratives
This book contains two separate and very different parts. First, in an introductory study (pp.1-96), Walter S. Melion closely scrutinizes The Art of Vison in Jerome Nadal's Adnotationes et [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric
For over a decade, Mark Meadow has explored how the humanist study of rhetoric informed the early Netherlandish "period eye." His first publication on this topic, in 1992, investigated the structure [...] Read More