With the publication of its twentieth volume, the well-known Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Painting has undergone a major facelift. As explained by the authors in their Introduction, some of the points [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Northern Renaissance (Art & Ideas)
In line with the aims of Phaidon’s “Art & Ideas” series, Jeffrey Chipps Smith has written a portable and reasonably priced introduction to the period for students and the general reader. His [...] Read More
Layers of Illusion: The Mayer van den Bergh Breviary
In 1994, the Mayer van den Bergh Breviary was loosed by conservators from the restrictive neo-Gothic binding that had discouraged both scholarly perusal and photography and carefully dismantled. Its [...] Read More
Carel Fabritius 1622-1654
On the morning of Monday, October 12, 1654, the former sexton of the Oude Kerk in Delft was sitting to Carel Fabritius for his portrait in the latter’s studio on the Doelenstraat. Between 10 and 10:30 [...] Read More
Am Anfang war das Wort. Das Ende der “stommen schilderkonst” am Beispiel Rembrandts
The point of departure for Christiane Häslein is the observation that in many of his works, Rembrandt attempts to visualize the intangible: the spoken word. She explains this phenomenon as the [...] Read More
Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
Scholarship on seventeenth-century Dutch art has tended to be conservative, for the most part sticking to the well-trodden paths of archival research, iconography, and Stilgeschichte. On the rare [...] Read More