Twenty years ago, in 1998, Maximiliaan Martens, Paul Huvenne and Valentin Vermeersch organized a seminal exhibition at the Memlingmuseum in Bruges, “From Hans Memling to Pieter Pourbus” (the catalogue [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 267/19)
Apparently they do make artist monographs the way they used to do. This massive tome, dedicated to one of the great yet neglected Netherlandish artists of the sixteenth century, fills a massive [...] Read More
Utopia’s Doom: The Graal as Paradise of Lust, the Sect of the Free Spirit and Jheronimus Bosch’s So-Called Garden of Delights (Art & Religion, 8)
Paul Vandenbroeck has been publishing on Bosch since 1981, with his key publication on the Garden of Earthly Delights appearing in a magisterial, two-part article published in Dutch in the 1989 and [...] Read More
Bosch & Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life (Bollingen Series XXXV: 57)
Deftly argued and fluently written, Koerner’s enthralling book is a revised and amplified version of the A. W. Mellon Lectures he delivered at The National Gallery of Art in 2007. He juxtaposes Bosch [...] Read More
Perspectives on Wenceslaus Hollar
Only the most renowned printmakers ever seem to get closer analysis. But Wenceslaus Hollar, the multinational etcher (1607 Prague-1677 London), has chiefly received exhibition attention only, so this [...] Read More
Netherlandish Art in its Global Context (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, 66, 2016)
In a 2006 state-of-the field essay, I wrote that "scholars have recently begun to examine the contact between Europe's art and other regions of the world after 1492."[i] In the dozen years since then, [...] Read More