Mitchell B. Merback’s most recent book, Perfection’s Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I, argues that this celebrated and much-discussed engraving incites a therapeutic or healing [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Niederländische Maler in Italien: Künstlerreisen und Kunstrezeption im 16. Jahrhundert
Maria Harnack offers a broad-view examination of sixteenth-century Netherlandish artists in Italy. She begins Chapter One’s first section, travel to the Eternal City, by citing a few key contributors [...] Read More
Prints in Translation, 1450-1750. Image, Materiality, Space
Prints in Translation, 1450-1750, is a wide-ranging volume that aims to mark a fundamental shift in print scholarship. Edited by Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Edward H. Wouk, the volume grew out of a [...] Read More
A Suspect Paradise: Studies on the Left Panel and Detail Symbolism of Hieronymus Bosch’s So-Called “Garden of Earthly Delights.”
The 2017–2018 Annual of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is completely devoted to Paul Vandenbroeck’s writings on Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. The Annual is divided into two parts; the [...] Read More
Creating Distinctions in Dutch Genre Painting: Repetition and Invention
When Swedish Ambassador Pieter Spiering agreed to pay young Gerrit Dou 500 guilders annually for the right of first refusal of the painter’s panels, the aristocrat effectively purchased social capital [...] Read More
Cut in Alabaster. A Material of Sculpture and its European Traditions 1330-1530
Kim Woods’s book on alabaster sculpture of the Late Medieval and early modern periods is an important, welcome addition to recent writings on sculpture. Remarkably comprehensive, this is a [...] Read More