Many anthologies stray widely from their topics and lack coherence. However, in this case, a gathering of essays has been tightly coordinated by two distinguished scholars of early modern art in [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Pieter Bruegel. The Complete Works.
The year 2019 has already become the Year of Bruegel, to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the artist's death (ca. 1525-1569). The once-in-a lifetime show in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum [...] Read More
Erudite Eyes: Friendship, Art and Erudition in the Network of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 14)
Erudite Eyes considers a range of objects – prints, maps, drawings, poems and paintings – produced by a network of artists, merchants, and humanists around geographer Abraham Ortelius. Foregrounding [...] Read More
Netherlandish Culture of the Sixteenth Century (Studies in European Urban History, 41)
Part of a series about urban history and culture (Bruaene of Ghent University is one of the series’ editors), this new anthology (based on a 2012 conference) offers nineteen impressive articles on a [...] Read More
Jan Lievens, Friend and Rival of the Young Rembrandt, with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Early Leiden Work 1623–1632
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)
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