Book Reviews

Giusto di Gand e la Comunione del Duca d’Urbino

By Francesca Bottacin, with contributions by Livia Depuyt-Elbaum, Andrea Bernardini, Gianluca Poldi, and Maria Letizia Amadori

Padua: CLEUP, 2021. 296 pp, 179 color illus. ISBN 978-88-5495-364-2.

Review published January 2023

This welcome book by an established scholar of artistic relations between Urbino and the Netherlands is the first monograph on Justus of Ghent since Jacques Lavalleye’s of 1936. Since then, many [...] Read More

Het Grote Rembrandt Boek

By Jeroen Giltaij

Zwolle: W Books, 2022. 496 pp, 700 color illus. ISBN 9789462584990.*

Review published December 2022

Het Grote Rembrandt Boek is a catalogue of Rembrandt’s paintings. Its author, Jeroen Giltaij, is a well-respected scholar of Dutch art who for many years was the Curator of Paintings at the Museum [...] Read More

Tributes to Maryan W. Ainsworth: Collaborative Spirit: Essays on Northern European Art, 1350-1650

By Anna Koopstra, Christine Seidel, and Joshua P. Waterman, eds.

London: Harvey Miller Publishers and Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022. 346 pp, 250 color illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-75-1.

Review published December 2022

This marvelous Festschrift’s subtitle Collaborative Spirit captures one of the defining characteristics of Maryan Ainsworth’s celebrated career as a curator, teacher, and prolific scholar. The three [...] Read More

The Stained Glass of Herkenrode Abbey (Corpus Vitrearum, Great Britain, 7)

By Isabelle Lecocq and Yvette Vanden Bemden, with Keith Barley, Alison Gilchrist, Marie Groll, Penny Hebgin-Barnes, John McNeill, and Joseph Spooner

Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2021. 618 pp, approx. 650 color illus. ISBN 9780197267189.

Review published December 2022

During the sixteenth century, a wealth of historiated stained glass filled the interiors of religious and secular buildings in the Netherlands, yet only a fraction of these luminous panes remains in [...] Read More

Rubens. Study Heads and Anatomical Studies: Anatomical Studies. Edited by Nils Büttner and Brecht Vanoppen (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XX [1])

By Michael W. Kwakkelstein

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. 218 pp, 31 b&w and color text illus., 112 b&w and color figs. ISBN 978-0-905203-80-5.

Review published December 2022

While this latest addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard may initially seem like a comparatively modest undertaking vis-à-vis other studies of aspects of Rubens’s oeuvre published in this [...] Read More

Artists’ and Artisans’ Collections in Early Modern Antwerp: Catalysts of Innovation (Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art)

By Marlise Rijks

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2021. xvi, 278 pp, 87 ill., mostly colored. ISBN 978-1-912554-05-8.

Review published December 2022

This beautifully produced book is a product of years of extensive research and study of a fascinating subject: the collecting culture in early modern Antwerp, with focus on the collections of artists [...] Read More