In his introduction explaining the organizing principles of this catalogue raisonné, José Juan Pérez Preciado discloses a crucial detail about the fifteenth-century Netherlandish paintings in the [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp: Art and Political Economy in an Age of Religious Conflict. (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 67)
This book is the revised publication of a PhD thesis, defended by the author in 2021 at the University of York. Actually, it is about two very important painting commissions for the decoration of [...] Read More
Little Beasts. Art, Wonder, and the Natural World
Insects have been enjoying increased visibility in early modern art history studies. After the late Janice Neri’s book, The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 [...] Read More
Early Netherlandish and French Paintings 1400-1480: Critical Catalogue for the Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
This handsome collection catalogue provides in-depth studies of the paintings in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, by artists who were active before ca. 1475-80 in the Burgundian Netherlands and France. Its [...] Read More
The Medici Series (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XIV)
The Author’s Preface to Nils Büttner’s study of the Medici Series in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, the complete catalogue of Rubens’s oeuvre, conveys within its first two paragraphs the scope [...] Read More
The Allure of Rome: Maarten Van Heemskerck Draws the City; Maarten van Heemskerck: 1498–1574
The books under review here support exhibitions of works by the Haarlem artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) on the 450th anniversary of his death. With The Allure of Rome, spearheaded by Tatjana [...] Read More