The massive polyptych known as The Ghent Altarpiece (Ghent, Cathedral of Saint Bavo) is one of the key monuments in the history of art. Originally comprised of twelve panels including nineteen [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age)
The wide-ranging material discussed in Zell’s welcome study relates to the values ascribed to art objects. Quantitative monetary currency provides one measure, and others are qualitative: diplomatic [...] Read More
Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe
In her latest book, Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe, Caroline Walker Bynum delves even deeper into the material world of the devotional object during the long Middle [...] Read More
La dynastie Francken/ De dynastie Francken
During the last decade the Musée de Flandre in the picturesque Northern French city of Cassel has received a certain renown for its exhibitions of Flemish seventeenth-century painting, sometimes [...] Read More
Rubens. Study Heads and Anatomical Studies: Study Heads. Edited by Bert Schepers and Brecht Vanoppen; transl. by Michael Hoyle, with additional translations by Fiona Healy and Elizabeth McGrath (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XX [2])
In terms of problems of attribution, this is one of the most difficult volumes in the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. Head studies are, of course, working material kept in the studio and used again [...] Read More
The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age; The Birth of Modern Political Satire: Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) and the Glorious Revolution.
Henk van Nierop, The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018, 452 pp, 123 b&w illus. ISBN [...] Read More