Book Reviews

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Religious Art for the Urban Community

By Barbara A. Kaminska

Leiden: Brill, 2019. 241 pp. 37 illus. ISBN 978-90-04-40039-9.

Review published November 2019

Peasant subjects have always received the focus in Pieter Bruegel studies, at the expense of all but a few of his religious subjects. Despite the recent appearance of another volume from Brill, Pieter [...] Read More

Maarten van Heemskerck’s Rome: Antiquity, Memory, and the Cult of Ruins

By Arthur J. DiFuria

Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, volume 287; Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, volume 31. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. 523 pp. 89 color ills. ISBN 978-90-04-38046-2

Review published November 2019

A view of the Septizonium by Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) captures why the artist’s drawings of Roman ruins count among the most evocative and enigmatic images ever made of the oft-depicted [...] Read More

Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts

By Kathryn M. Rudy

Library of the Written Word, The Manuscript World, Volume 55. Leiden: Brill, 2016. xxii, 308 pp, 152 color illus. ISBN 978-90-04-32695-8 (hardback); 978-90-04-32696-5 (e-book).

Review published October 2019

Kathryn Rudy has added a new and beautifully illustrated study to her already extensive bibliography on readers’ interactions with early Netherlandish manuscripts. It is a monumental undertaking. She [...] Read More

The Renaissance Nude

By Thomas Kren with Jill Burke and Stephen J. Campbell, eds.

Cat. exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, October 30, 2018 – January 27, 2019; Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 2 – June 2, 2019. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018. xiii, 417 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-1-6060-6584-6.

Review published September 2019

This handsomely produced and beautifully illustrated catalogue considers the development of the naturalistic nude in various media produced in northern and southern Europe, c. 1400-1530. It [...] Read More

A Knight for the Ages: Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry

By Elizabeth Morrison, ed.

Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2018. xi, 180 pp, 18 pls, 60 figs. ISBN 978-1-606-06575-4.

Review published September 2019

Jacques de Lalaing, the bon chevalier, a renowned jouster and military commander in the service of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, died in 1453, aged only thirty-two, at the siege of Poeke during [...] Read More

Hans Memling: Portraiture, Piety, and a Reunited Altarpiece

By John Marciari, ed.

Exh. Cat. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, September 2, 2016 – January 8, 2017. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2016. 112 pp, 55 illus. in color. ISBN 978-1-911300-08-3.

Review published September 2019

New York is a city fortunate enough to contain a significant group of paintings by Hans Memling. From portraiture (the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Tommaso di Folco Portinari and Maria Portinari are [...] Read More

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