This compilation of articles, all but one of which was originally published in Kunstschrift, amply fulfills its stated goal of presenting the variety within Eddy de Jongh’s scholarship. The author [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London
"Why," asks this volume’s chief editor, "do recognized and celebrated achievements, across several fields of endeavor, tend to cluster within cities over relatively short periods of time?" (p. 5) [...] Read More
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-Century Portraiture
As Emilie Gordenker says, the history of dress has often in the past been regarded as a suitable occupation for amateurs or, perish the thought, as ‘women’s work.’ But now at last it has moved into [...] Read More
Van Dyck 1599-1999. Conjectures and Reflections
This volume contains twenty papers which were either delivered or written for the colloquium held in Antwerp at the time of the various exhibitions devoted to Van Dyck in 1999. They cover a wide range [...] Read More
Ut Pictura Politeia oder der gemalte Fürstenstaat. Moritz der Gelehrte und das Bildprogramm in Eschwege (Studien zur Kultur der Renaissance, 1)
The authors of ‘Ut pictura politeia oder der gemalte Fürstenstaat’make another important contribution to the growing body of literature concerning Landgrave Moritz ‘the Learned’ of Hesse-Kassel [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Drawings and Prints
Pieter Bruegel the Elder has been under a brilliant spotlight for some thirty years – a light which has faded away many traditional notions about this artist. A concentrated look at Bruegel’s drawn [...] Read More