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Jan Lievens, Friend and Rival of the Young Rembrandt, with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Early Leiden Work 1623–1632

By Bernhard Schnackenburg

Translated from the German by Kristin Lohse Belkin. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2016. 488 pp, 529 color illustrations. ISBN 978-3-7319-0333-8.
Also available in German: idem., Jan Lievens. Freund und Rivale des jungen Rembrandt mit einem kritischen Katalog des Leidener Frühwerks 1623-1632. ISBN 978-7319-0081-8.

Review published September 2018

This book presents an ambitious and original reappraisal of the early work of Jan Lievens (1607–1674), the Dutch painter, draftsman, and printmaker whose formative period in Leiden was intimately [...] Read More

Rubens and the Human Body (The Body in Art)

By Cordula van Wyhe, ed.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2018, 366 pp, 3 b&w illus., 166 colour illus. ISBN 978-2-503-57775-3.

Review published August 2018

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

Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art

By Carlee A. Bradbury and Michelle Moseley-Christian, eds.

Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xvii, 244 pp, 26 b&w illus. ISBN 978-3-319-65049-4.

Review published August 2018

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

By Thea Vignau-Wilberg

Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2017. 544 pp, 515 illus. ISBN 978-3-7757-4173-6

Review published July 2018

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)

By Lynn F. Jacobs

London – New York: Routledge, 2018. xiii, 231 pp. 12 col. plates, b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-315-10799-8.

Review published July 2018

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.]

By John Oliver Hand and Greta Koppel, eds.

Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press. 128 pp, 90 illus. ISBN 978-0-300-23286-8.

Review published July 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

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