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16th Century

Cut in Alabaster. A Material of Sculpture and its European Traditions 1330-1530

By Kim W. Woods

Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. 418 pp, 170 color illus., 2 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-909400-26-9. 

Review published May 2019

Kim Woods’s book on alabaster sculpture of the Late Medieval and early modern periods is an important, welcome addition to recent writings on sculpture. Remarkably comprehensive, this is a [...] Read More

Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance

By Suzanne Kathleen Karr Schmidt

(Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Leiden: Brill, 2017, xxvii, 439 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-35413-5.

Review published March 2019

When I first received this book, it fell open at pages 18 and 19, where identical illustrations had been reproduced on each page. I must confess that my first reaction (typical of an academic author [...] Read More

Pieter Bruegel. The Complete Works.

By Jürgen Müller and Thomas Schauerte

Cologne: Taschen, 2018. 492 pp. ISBN 978-3-8365-5689-7

Review published January 2019

The year 2019 has already become the Year of Bruegel, to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the artist's death (ca. 1525-1569). The once-in-a lifetime show in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum [...] Read More

Erudite Eyes: Friendship, Art and Erudition in the Network of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 14)

By Tine Luk Meganck

Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2017. Xxii, 324 pp, 156 col. illus. ISBN: 978-90-04-34248-4.

Review published October 2018

Erudite Eyes considers a range of objects – prints, maps, drawings, poems and paintings – produced by a network of artists, merchants, and humanists around geographer Abraham Ortelius. Foregrounding [...] Read More

Netherlandish Culture of the Sixteenth Century (Studies in European Urban History, 41)

By Ethan Matt Kavaler and Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 388 pp, 110 b&w illus., 3 tables. ISBN 978-2-503-57582-7.

Review published September 2018

Part of a series about urban history and culture (Bruaene of Ghent University is one of the series’ editors), this new anthology (based on a 2012 conference) offers nineteen impressive articles on a [...] Read More

Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel: Art and Science around 1600

By Thea Vignau-Wilberg

Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2017. 544 pp, 515 illus. ISBN 978-3-7757-4173-6

Review published July 2018

No scholar has devoted more of her career to the works of Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600) than Thea Vignau-Wilberg. Nearly a half a century ago, she published her dissertation on the manuscripts that [...] Read More

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