In the history of European printmaking, engravers seem to get all the ink. In contrast, woodcut designers, let alone their block cutters, often remain obscure, and only during the past generation, [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Rembrandt: Studies in His Varied Approaches to Italian Art (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History)
Constantijn Huygens’s oft-cited remarks about the young Rembrandt’s (and Lievens’s) disinterest in traveling to Italy, justified in part by the wealth of Italian art that could then be found in the [...] Read More
Rubens’s Spirit: from Ingenuity to Genius
With this new title from the Reaktion series ‘Renaissance Lives,’ Alexander Marr continues his exploration of a topic that has preoccupied him for a number of years: the early modern discourse on the [...] Read More
The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Multiplied and Modified
As its title’s use of the word “reception” suggests, this anthology presents essays on responses to prints. The foregrounding of reception may daunt some scholars. After all, as an interpretive model, [...] Read More
Many Antwerp Hands. Collaborations in Netherlandish Art
Growing out of a 2018 conference at the Rubenianum in Antwerp, this cluster of essays interrogates a significant phenomenon in Antwerp painting, especially from the seventeenth century: collaboration [...] Read More
Copies of Flemish Masters in the Hispanic World: Flandes by Substitution
The fourteen essays in this volume focus on the Spanish reception of Flemish painters and paintings from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The essays are arranged in chronological order and [...] Read More
Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition
That such a major exhibition dedicated to situating Rembrandt in the competitive art market of Amsterdam could be successfully presented this year, after delays due to the world health crisis and its [...] Read More
Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History and Intellectual History, Vol. 312/45)
Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age is a timely study by Martha Moffitt Peacock that reflects revived scholarly interest in female patrons, artists, [...] Read More
Als Kunstgeschichte populär wurde. Illustrierte Kunstbuchserien 1860-1960 und der Kanon der Westlichen Kunst
Did you ever wonder how the particular names inscribed on the cornices of major museums in Europe and America were chosen when those civic institutions were built? This new book by Friederike Kitschen [...] Read More
Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages
When a venerated medievalist who has contributed great insights into the cultural practices of late medieval elites pens a book that distills a life’s work, it is best to pay attention. This is the [...] Read More
Maarten van Heemskerck. Römische Studien zwischen Sachlichkeit und Imagination
Tatjana Bartsch’s book on Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574, in Rome 1532–c. 1537) delivers the most thorough analysis to date of the artist’s extant corpus of Roman drawings. As renowned as is [...] Read More
Anthony van Dyck & the Art of Portraiture
In general, Anthony van Dyck has been better served by catalogues than monographs. Any study of the artist will have as its point of departure the monumental 2004 catalogue raisonné by Susan Barnes, [...] Read More
Flesh, Gold and Wood: The Saint-Denis Altarpiece in Liège and the Question of Partial Paint Practices in the Sixteenth Century
This book contains twenty articles (about half in English and half in French, all with English abstracts) from a 2015 international symposium held at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage [...] Read More
Vie de Lambert Lombard (1565)
Dominicus Lampsonius has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the historiography of European art. He is perhaps best known for his role as the author of Latin inscriptions on the Effigies [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel, Mayken Verhulst en Mechelen. Het begin van een wonderlijke Schildersdynastie
This useful yet curious volume is actually a reprint, updated with new archival findings of a 2005 volume (Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus Museum) with a similar title, Mayken Verhulst. De turkse Manieren [...] Read More