Book Reviews

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (ca. 1475-1533). De Renaissance in Amsterdam en Alkmaar

By Daantje Meuwissen

With contributions by Peter van den Brink et al. Cat. exh. Amsterdam Museum; Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar; Sint Laurenskerk, Alkmaar, March 15 – June 29, 2014. Zwolle: Waanders, 2014. 319 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-94-91196-96-6

Review published November 2016

In northern Europe, the early sixteenth-century art world was crowded with artists of extraordinary talent: Jan Gossart, Bernaert van Orley, and Lucas van Leyden in the Low Countries, as well as [...] Read More

Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectives (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)

By Arthur J. DiFuria, ed.

London/New York: Routledge (Ashgate), 2016. xx, 216 pp, 64 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-4724-4914-6

Review published November 2016

Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectivesarrives at a rich moment in the study of the playful, complex pictures best known as genre scenes. Several current and upcoming [...] Read More

Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France, 4)

By Myra D. Orth

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2015. 2 vols., 720 pp, 55 color pls., 321 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-87250-130-7

Review published November 2016

This extensive, two-volume study is the third installment of the Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France, published by Harvey Miller. It joins Walter Cahn’s Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth [...] Read More

2016 Publications on Hieronymus Bosch

By various authors

Review published November 2016

Matthijs Ilsink and Jos Koldeweij, Hieronymus Bosch, Visions of Genius. Cat. exh. Het Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, February 13 – May 8, 2016. Brussels: Mercatorfonds, distributed by Yale [...] Read More

Early Netherlandish Paintings. Szépmüvészeti Múzeum Budapest, Old Masters’ Gallery Catalogues

By Susan Urbach

With Ágota Varga, technical examinations by András Fáy (Distinguished Contributions to the Study of the Arts in the Burgunduan Netherlands). 2 vols. London: Harvey Miller; Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. Vol. I: 271 pp, 174 color, 115 b&w illus. Vol. II: 327 pp, 174 color, 115 b&w illus. ISBN Vol. I: 978-1-909400-09-2. ISBN Vol. II: 978-1-909400-29-0

Review published November 2016

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, private individuals acquired many of the Netherlandish paintings presently housed in Budapest’s Szépművészeti Múzeum, though collectors generally prized [...] Read More

Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books

By Kathryn M. Rudy

New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2015. 362 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-20989-1

Review published November 2016

This is a book about the permeability of medieval manuscripts and their transformation into something more responsive to their owners’ lives and concerns. It uses the author’s extensive experience [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

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