As Emilie Gordenker says, the history of dress has often in the past been regarded as a suitable occupation for amateurs or, perish the thought, as ‘women’s work.’ But now at last it has moved into [...] Read More

This volume contains twenty papers which were either delivered or written for the colloquium held in Antwerp at the time of the various exhibitions devoted to Van Dyck in 1999. They cover a wide range [...] Read More

Claudia Banz, Höfisches Mäzenatentum in Brüssel. Kardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586) und die Erzherzöge Albrecht (1559-1621) und Isabella (1566-1633)(Berliner Schriften zur Kunst XII), [...] Read More

It must be counted ill luck to be dubbed ‘the third’, when Senior never existed as a painter (he was probably a decorator of sculpture), and Junior, although a recorded master in the guild of St Luke, [...] Read More

Guy Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry. London: Thames & Hudson; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999. 383 pp, generous colour and some b&w illus. ISBN 0-500-01972-X. Guy Delmarcel, Los Honores. [...] Read More

This book is the fourth title to appear in the excellent Pictura Novaseries of studies in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Flemish painting and drawing, which has already brought us one other work [...] Read More