16th Century

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

Images and Indulgences in Early Netherlandish Painting

By Miyako Sugiyama

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. 193 pp, 10 b&w, 126 col. illus. ISBN: 978-1-912554-58-4.

Review published March 2023

Indulgences have had a bad press. Reviled as the epitome of Catholic greed and the lurid practice that sparked the Reformation, to this day they are cast in a negative light. This view overlooks the [...] Read More

Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel

By Emily J. Peters and Laura M. Ritter, eds.

Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art and Albertina Museum, Vienna. Cleveland venue: October 9, 2022 – January 8, 2023. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022, 322 pp., 252 color ills., ISBN 978-0-300-26669-6.

Review published March 2023

The legendary drawings collection of the Albertina in Vienna, which includes peerless holdings of early Netherlandish drawings, was on glorious display at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 2022 [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century