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
Book Reviews
Pieter Bruegel, Mayken Verhulst en Mechelen. Het begin van een wonderlijke Schildersdynastie
This useful yet curious volume is actually a reprint, updated with new archival findings of a 2005 volume (Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus Museum) with a similar title, Mayken Verhulst. De turkse Manieren [...] Read More
Dutch Golden Age(s): The Shaping of a Cultural Community
The tag “Dutch Golden Age” evokes a luminous glow, as a sunset over vistas with ruins or harbors; it calls to mind lavish spreads of food in costly vessels, of well-dressed men gathered to celebrate [...] Read More
Mythological Passions: Titian, Veronese, Allori, Rubens, Ribera, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velázquez
It must have been one of the most satisfying and challenging tasks with which a museum curator can be faced. To be presented with six of the finest pictures ever executed, namely Titian’s poesie [...] Read More
Living Pictures. Jan van Eyck and Painting’s First Century
In this ambitious book, Noa Turel argues for a new understanding of the original aims and perception of early Netherlandish painting. Rather than the phenomenal optical realism usually regarded as the [...] Read More
Mary of Hungary, Renaissance Patron and Collector. Gender, Art and Culture
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