The Ghent Privileges Master (fl. 1440-60) was first noticed by Friedrich Winkler in connection with the manuscript in Vienna (cod. 2583). Clark assembles an oeuvre for this artist and his successor, [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Hours of Isabel La Católica. The Facsimile Edition
id-fifteenth-century Flemish manuscript illumination needs more focused studies such as this one. Unfortunately it is not available separately from the facsimile, although the illustration is adequate [...] Read More
L’âge d’or du manuscrit à peintures en France au temps de Charles VI et Les Heures du Maréchal Boucicaut
Albert Châtelet’s handsome, slip-cased treatment of one of the richest eras of French manuscript painting, the several decades around 1400 that included the Très riches Heures, is divided neatly into [...] Read More
Jacob Jordaens: Design for Tapestries (Pictura Nova, Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, V)
Considering that Jacob Jordaens was the most prolific designer for tapestry in the Southern Netherlands in the seventeenth century, it is remarkable that up until now we have had to rely on Max [...] Read More
Johann Liss. A Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné
The first words in this major new monograph devoted to Johann Liss state the problem: he is, "a painter about whose life almost nothing is known. No documents exist pertaining to his birth and [...] Read More
Bellisimi ingegni, grandissimo splendore. Studies over de religieuze architectuur in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden tijdens de 17de eeuw
In her introduction to this novel and valuable anthology, Krista De Jonge, Professor of Architectural History at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, notes that the decade between Carolus Scribanius's [...] Read More