The book under review is the third in a series of Brepols monographs addressing the human body in early modern visual arts. Given the stated aim of this series – to explore new approaches and [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art
In a new blog on intersectionality posted by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, literature historian Christina Luckyj confronted tensions that she identified between a contemporary, [...] Read More
Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel: Art and Science around 1600
No scholar has devoted more of her career to the works of Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600) than Thea Vignau-Wilberg. Nearly a half a century ago, she published her dissertation on the manuscripts that [...] Read More
Thresholds and Boundaries. Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1530) (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
As points of transition, thresholds offer new possibilities, but they also mark boundaries, divisions of time and space. Employing the anthropological theories of Arnold Gennep and Victor Turner, who [...] Read More
Michel Sittow. Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe. [Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, January 28 – May 13, 2018.]
This recent Washington exhibition, jointly organized with the Art Museum of Estonia and its curator Greta Koppel, offers a fitting moment to pay tribute to John Hand, its long-time curator (since [...] Read More
Rubens. Painter of Sketches. [Exh. cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, April 9 – August 5, 2018; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September 8, 2018 – January 13, 2019.]
Peter Paul Rubens dominates Baroque art to a degree rivaled only by his Italian counterpart in sculpture, Bernini. This exhibition catalogue of oil sketches, presented and authored by Friso Lammertse [...] Read More