This handsome, well-illustrated book represents a culmination of Dan Ewing’s work on Jan de Beer and will take its place as the standard monograph on this artist for some time to come. For the most [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Jan de Beer. Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp (Me fecit)
Dan Ewing has written an impressive and essential book about one of the most important but least understood painters of Antwerp. In his famous description of the city, the Italian merchant and [...] Read More
Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity
Marisa Bass has written an important reinterpretation of Jan Gossart’s mythological nude paintings, an erudite and valuable contribution to the recent wave of scholarship on the artist. Her research [...] Read More
In Search of Utopia. Art and Science in the Era of Thomas More
At a time when the largest municipal museums in Belgium, both Antwerp and Brussels, are undergoing repairs and are withdrawn from major exhibitions, M, the Leuven Museum, has stepped up with important [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination
The works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder transfix viewers and vex interpreters. When Karel van Mander wrote that one could not look at Bruegel’s works without laughing, he spoke to the immersive [...] Read More
The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch: Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Middle Ages to the Reformation
The “Epiphany” in this book’s title may be read effectively in at least three ways. It refers most directly to Hieronymus Bosch’s great Adoration of the Magi triptych (c.1495) in Madrid, widely known [...] Read More