Few topics have attracted more attention in recent literature on the intersections of early modern art, science, and intellectual history than the “epistemic image.” This is a type of visual culture [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Dürer’s Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition
In a letter written from Venice on September 8, 1506, two of Albrecht Dürer’s garments said hello to the humanist Willibald Pirckheimer: “My French mantle greets you and my Italian coat also.” [...] Read More
Pride and Solace: Medieval Books of Hours and Their Readers
For manuscript enthusiasts, 2025 was dominated by the blockbuster exhibition displaying the calendar of the Très Riches Heures (and many related items) at the castle of Chantilly, just outside Paris. [...] Read More
The Burgeoning European Print Trade. The Distribution of Prints via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp.
After long domination of early Netherlandish art by the study of paintings, recent decades have inspired interest in another major innovation of the era, the medium of prints. Around midcentury in [...] Read More
Opacity. Blackness and the Art of the Dutch Republic
In the Netherlands, the prosperous economic and cultural heights of the seventeenth century used to be called the “Golden Century” (Gouden Eeuw). But as if a veil has been lifted, recent revisionist [...] Read More
The Globalization of Netherlandish Art. (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 79)
This edited volume, according to its introduction, purports to reevaluate and reframe the study of global Netherlandish art, at a moment when North Americans and Europeans continue to grapple with the [...] Read More