The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels: Drama, Ceremony, and Art Patronage (16th-17th Centuries) makes a fascinating contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on early modern confraternities. [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution. Flanders, vol. 3: The Provinces of Flemish Brabant and Limburg (Corpus Vitrearum, Belgium, Checklist Series, vol. 3)
This weighty publication completes the third installment of C.J. Berserik’s and J.M.A. Caen’s monumental checklist of Netherlandish painted-glass roundels preserved in Belgian public and private [...] Read More
Art as History, History as Art: Jheronimus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Assembling Knowledge, not Setting Puzzles (Nijmegen Art Historical Studies, XXI)
How should one write about historical objects in an era of rising right-wing extremism, populist nationalism, and various flavors of separatism? At a time when disparities of wealth have taken on [...] Read More
Jan de Beer. Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp (Me fecit)
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
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