As its title’s use of the word “reception” suggests, this anthology presents essays on responses to prints. The foregrounding of reception may daunt some scholars. After all, as an interpretive model, [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Many Antwerp Hands. Collaborations in Netherlandish Art
Growing out of a 2018 conference at the Rubenianum in Antwerp, this cluster of essays interrogates a significant phenomenon in Antwerp painting, especially from the seventeenth century: collaboration [...] Read More
Copies of Flemish Masters in the Hispanic World: Flandes by Substitution
The fourteen essays in this volume focus on the Spanish reception of Flemish painters and paintings from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The essays are arranged in chronological order and [...] Read More
Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition
That such a major exhibition dedicated to situating Rembrandt in the competitive art market of Amsterdam could be successfully presented this year, after delays due to the world health crisis and its [...] Read More
Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History and Intellectual History, Vol. 312/45)
Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age is a timely study by Martha Moffitt Peacock that reflects revived scholarly interest in female patrons, artists, [...] Read More
Als Kunstgeschichte populär wurde. Illustrierte Kunstbuchserien 1860-1960 und der Kanon der Westlichen Kunst
Did you ever wonder how the particular names inscribed on the cornices of major museums in Europe and America were chosen when those civic institutions were built? This new book by Friederike Kitschen [...] Read More