In the Spring of 2001, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum put on show its recently restored Holy Kinship, traditionally attributed to Geertgen tot Sint Jans. Almost twenty years ago, in 1983, the painting had [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Hugo van der Goes
Alongside recent studies on Hieronymous Bosch, Robert Campin, and Rogier van der Weyden, this French-language monograph on Hugo van der Goes is the fourth published by Fonds Mercator to focus on an [...] Read More
Hoe bedriechlijck dat die vrouwen zijn’: Vrouwenlisten in de beeldende kunst in de Nederlanden, circa 1350-1650
The power of women was a popular theme for writers and artists from the Middle Ages until the mid-seventeenth century. Such subjects as Samson and Delilah and Aristotle and Phyllis embodied the theme [...] Read More
Böhmische Bildstickerei um 1400: Die Stiftungen in Trient, Brandenburg und Danzig
Based on the author’s doctoral thesis (Berlin: Technische Universität, 1999), this astute book investigates a series of embroidered liturgical vestments, most of which were made in Prague in the years [...] Read More
O Musica, du edle Kunst. Musik und Tanz im 16. Jahrhundert/Music for a While. Music and Dance in 16th-Century Prints
This exhibition catalogue brings together late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century prints with musical subject matter, drawn from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich. Its author, an authority on [...] Read More
“Nach dem Leben und aus der Phantasie”. Niederländische Zeichnungen vom 15. bis 18. Jahrhundert aus dem Städelschen Kunstinstitut
Frankfurt’s Städel has a distinguished history, and it is sensibly offering its own treasures to the public in a series of exhibitions of the permanent collection, including remarkable holdings in [...] Read More