The author of an earlier study on panoramic world landscapes of the sixteenth century, Walter Gibson concentrates here on what Simon Schama has termed the 'plotless places', views of ordinary scenery, [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Painting and the Market in Early Modern Antwerp
One can only hope that Elizabeth Honig's astute book will find a broad scholarly audience equal to its scope and implications. For her ostensible subject is topical: Antwerp market-scene paintings, [...] Read More
Kunst voor de Markt/Art for the Market, 1500-1700 (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek/Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, vol. 50, 1999)
When the author of the first history of Netherlandish art, Karel van Mander, looked back on the origins of his subject, he would note that "in the time of the two Van Eycks, the city of Bruges was [...] Read More
Hof-, Staats- en Stadsceremonies/Court, State and City Ceremonies (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek/Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, vol. 49, 1998)
The Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek stands apart from the majority of art history periodicals by its policy of devising every issue around a single theme. Recent volumes devoted to a single [...] Read More
Bruges and the Renaissance: Memling to Pourbus
A second volume to the catalogue appears as: Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, ed., Bruges et la Renaissance. De Memling à Pourbus: Notices [Cat. Exh.] Ghent: Ludion/Flammarion Stichting Kunstboek, 1998. [...] Read More
Rubens and His Spanish Patrons
Probably the most internationally active painter of his day, Rubens catered to the artistically-refined taste of the courts of England, France and Spain by providing individual works, often of a [...] Read More