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
Book Reviews
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
Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books
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
An Allegory of Divine Love: The Netherlandish Blockbook Canticum Canticorum (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series, 10)
An Allegory of Divine Love emerged out of the author and her husband Irving Lavin’s The Liturgy of Love: Images from the Song of Songs in the Art of Cimabue, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt, The Franklin [...] Read More
Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
Made up of an established core and a changing array of international contributors, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär gathers every three years. Scholars present new research on early modern Germany, and [...] Read More