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
16th Century
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
Leben mit Kunst, Wirken durch Kunst. Sammelwesen und Hofkunst unter Margarete von Österreich, Regentin der Niederlande
Dagmar Eichberger's seminal study on Margaret of Austria, regent of the Low Countries (1507-1530), as a collector, has set a new standard in the study of Netherlandish court art of the Early Modern [...] Read More
Het Geheim van Gouda: De cartons van de Goudse Glazen
Gouda's Sint-Janskerk's famous sixteenth-century cycle of monumental stained-glass windows was produced by several teams of artists over the course of about fifty years. Less well known than the [...] Read More
Willem van Tetrode, Sculptor (c. 1525-1580). Guglielmo Fiammingo scultore
Late sixteenth-century writers on the arts in Italy and Holland alike extolled Willem de Tetrode as one of the preeminent European sculptors of his day. Yet because many of his most important works [...] Read More