Feminist art history has recovered early modern women patrons of great importance, most notably in the ground-breaking exhibition, Women of Distinction (Mechelen, 2005; organized by Dagmar [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Tree of Jesse Iconography in Northern Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
In this book, Susan Green addresses the polyvalent and dynamic character of iconography, by focusing on how the depictions of the Tree of Jesse variously functioned in the late Middle Ages. According [...] Read More
Willem van den Blocke: A Sculptor from the Low Countries in the Baltic Region
This first volume in the new Brepols Early Modern Cultural Studies series centers on the extraterritorial career of an individual Netherlandish artist, Willem van den Blocke, in order to offer larger [...] Read More
Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700
The early modern Netherlands were, statistically speaking, a land of women: estimates suggest that during the seventeenth century women outnumbered men four to three. These women were not only [...] Read More
Peter Paul Rubens und der Barock im Norden
The occasion for this exhibition, organized under the direction of Christoph Stiegemann, the actual director of the Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum in the Westphalian city of Paderborn, was the fact [...] Read More
Renaissance Metapainting
The very cover of this impressive new anthology sends out a contradiction: its images feature details of the Washington Jan van Eyck Annunciation shutter, yet its editors are noted specialists in [...] Read More