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
Book Reviews
Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages
When a venerated medievalist who has contributed great insights into the cultural practices of late medieval elites pens a book that distills a life’s work, it is best to pay attention. This is the [...] Read More
Maarten van Heemskerck. Römische Studien zwischen Sachlichkeit und Imagination
Tatjana Bartsch’s book on Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574, in Rome 1532–c. 1537) delivers the most thorough analysis to date of the artist’s extant corpus of Roman drawings. As renowned as is [...] Read More
Anthony van Dyck & the Art of Portraiture
In general, Anthony van Dyck has been better served by catalogues than monographs. Any study of the artist will have as its point of departure the monumental 2004 catalogue raisonné by Susan Barnes, [...] Read More
Flesh, Gold and Wood: The Saint-Denis Altarpiece in Liège and the Question of Partial Paint Practices in the Sixteenth Century
This book contains twenty articles (about half in English and half in French, all with English abstracts) from a 2015 international symposium held at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage [...] Read More
Vie de Lambert Lombard (1565)
Dominicus Lampsonius has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the historiography of European art. He is perhaps best known for his role as the author of Latin inscriptions on the Effigies [...] Read More