An appealing volume for the generalist and specialist alike, The Donor’s Image provides an analysis of the history, context, and iconography of one of the world’s most precious and fascinating [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Painting and Patronage in Cologne 1300-1500
This book – the first such study in English–– traces the development of later medieval painting in Cologne over two centuries, beginning with the emergence of the agitated ‘Zackenstil’ in the wall [...] Read More
Illiterati et uxorati. Manuscripts and their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500
The Latin that hovers above the more sober "Manuscripts and their Makers," on the title page of Richard and Mary Rouse’s magisterial two-volume work, is Francis Bacon’s dismissive description of the [...] Read More
Herri met de Bles: Studies and Explorations of the World Landscape Tradition
This volume unites ten papers presented at a symposium at Princeton University, October 13-14, 1995, in conjuction with the exhibition 'Anatomy of a Painting: The Road to Calvary by Herri met de [...] Read More
Painting on Light. Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and Holbein
Sometimes an exhibition arrives with the shock of a new recognition. Just as in the case of the wonderful 1995 New York exhibition of Netherlandish stained glass, The Luminous Image, produced by [...] Read More
Two Publications on Pieter Bruegel
Jürgen Müller, Das Paradox als Bildform. Studien zur Ikonologie Pieter Bruegels d. Ä. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1999. 195 pp, 6 col. and 48 b&w illus. ISBN 3-7705-3191-4. ‘Pieter Bruegel [...] Read More