The paintings and drawings Jan Gossaert made for Philip IV of Burgundy and other patrons related to the sixteenth-century Burgundian court reveal the crucial role the artist played in weaving [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Joos van Cleve: The Complete Paintings
In the early sixteenth century Antwerp was a key center for some of the most significant developments in Netherlandish art, particularly the assimilation of Italian Renaissance style, and the [...] Read More
The Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus 1488-1539, a Renaissance Collector in Seville
Most histories of print collectors and their collections spring from an investigation of the print collection itself. Take for example, Peter Parshall's article on Ferdinand of Tyrol's collection at [...] Read More
Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts
One of my students likened our entrance into the galleries of the exhibition, Painted Prints, while on a class trip to Baltimore, to that of Dorothy's stepping into Oz - the moment at which Dorothy [...] Read More
Saints, Sinners, and Sisters: Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This anthology fills a major lacuna in the study of Northern European art. The eleven essays address a range of issues related to women artists, images of women, and theoretical gender concerns. As [...] Read More
Painting for the Market. Commercialization of Art in Antwerp’s Golden Age (Studies in Urban History [1100-1800], 2)
This is the first monographic study based on archival research that is devoted to the Antwerp art market during the 'long' sixteenth century, from 1490 to 1609. Filip Vermeylen's pivotal thesis is [...] Read More