A detail of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s well-known painting Gersaint’s Shopsign (1720) figures on the cover of this volume. The painting depicts the shop of the art dealer Edme-François Gersaint as a site [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (ca. 1475-1533). De Renaissance in Amsterdam en Alkmaar
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)
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)
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
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
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