Despite the fact that three times during the second half of the twentieth century the need to pay death duties or raise funds for other reasons led to the departure of substantial groups of drawings, [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels. Volume I: The Infancy Narratives
This book contains two separate and very different parts. First, in an introductory study (pp.1-96), Walter S. Melion closely scrutinizes The Art of Vison in Jerome Nadal's Adnotationes et [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric
For over a decade, Mark Meadow has explored how the humanist study of rhetoric informed the early Netherlandish "period eye." His first publication on this topic, in 1992, investigated the structure [...] Read More
El secreto de los flamencos
What do HNA members read when they go on holidays? Some of us carry a lot of new books and catalogues, discussed in the HNA Newsletters; others buy a good novel or thriller and try to forget HNA for a [...] Read More
Guide pratique de l’historian de l’art débutant, 2nd edition
A budding Jacquemart de Hesdin scholar from Mons or a slightly overwhelmed college freshman from Namur would do well to pick up this lucidly crafted volume, designed to guide them over the practical [...] Read More
Stefan Lochner: Image Making in Fifteenth-Century Cologne
The first monograph on Stefan Lochner since 1938, this is a beautifully-produced volume in Maryan Ainsworth's admirable Me fecit. series with excellent color and many detailed photographs. The author, [...] Read More