16th Century

Melchior Lorck: An Artist in Transit

By Hanne Kolind Poulsen

SMK Statens Museum for Kunst/ The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, November 9, 2023 – March 3, 2024.
Exh. cat. edited by Hanne Kolind Poulsen and Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen, Melchior Lorck – Facts, Fiction, Interpretation, Copenhagen, 1923, 152 pp. ISBN 978-87-7551-205-8.

Review published January 2024

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

Remember Me. Renaissance Portraits

By Sara van Dijk and Matthias Ubl, with contributions by Friso Lammertse and Ilona van Tuinen

Exh. Cat., The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2021. 268 pp. 178 color, 8 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-9032-650-0.

Review published December 2023

This book was published as the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Rijksmuseum from October 1, 2021 to January 16, 2022, but it easily stands alone as an engaging introduction to the artistic and [...] 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

By Stephanie Porras; Aaron Hyman

Review published October 2023

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

Alabaster Sculpture in Europe, 1300-1650

By Marjan Debaene, ed.

Exh. Cat. M Leuven, October 14, 2022 – February 26, 2023. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2022. 312 pp, 360 col. illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-92-8.

Review published September 2023

For much of the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period, alabaster was often the material of choice for sculptors in various European centers, creating works ranging from the intimate to the [...] Read More

Jean Bellegambe (c. 1470‒1535/36): Making, Meaning and Patronage of His Works

By Anna Koopstra

Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 156 pp, 119 col. illus. ISBN 978-2-503-57437-0.

Review published May 2023

Anna Koopstra’s book, Jean Bellegambe (c. 1470‒1535/36): Making, Meaning and Patronage of His Works, is a helpful intervention, as the first published volume on this Douaisian painter since 1890. The [...] Read More

Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c.1500-1800: Poetry and Ecology

By Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti

London: Lund Humphries, 2022. 160 pp, 72 mostly color ills. ISBN: 978-1-84822-494-0.

Review published April 2023

This important and charming book examines the depiction of woodlands and individual trees in the visual arts and poetry during the long Renaissance and beyond. It posits that in former times human [...] Read More

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16th Century