Almost a missing link between the most celebrated pioneer engravers of the fifteenth century, Master ES and Martin Schongauer, is a less familiar figure, the Upper Rhenish printmaker Israhel van [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Remember Me. Renaissance Portraits
This book was published as the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Rijksmuseum from October 1, 2021 to January 16, 2022, but it easily stands alone as an engaging introduction to the artistic and [...] Read More
Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Antwerp-born Anthony Van Dyck occupies an important, if complex, place in the history of English painting. Breathtakingly talented in his virtuosic handling, during his time in England Van Dyck was [...] Read More
The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe; Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America
Stephanie Porras, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023, 186 pp, ISBN 9780271092836. [...] Read More
The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens, A Critical Catalogue, Volume Two (1609-1620) (Pictura Nova, XXIII)
With commendable promptness the second part of that major scholarly project, a catalogue raisonné of all Rubens drawings, has been published. On opening the two-volume set, one detail that immediately [...] Read More
Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity: Picturing Unruly Nature
This multi-author volume edited by Christine Göttler and Mia M. Mochizuki is a welcome addition to the environmental humanities. As its title suggests, the book draws our attention to differences [...] Read More