Daniel Nijs, the Flemish merchant and entrepreneur, the subject of this excellent in-depth study by Christina Anderson, is best known for his part in the sale of the Gonzaga collection to Charles I. [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Joos van Cleve: A Sixteenth-Century Antwerp Artist and his Workshop (Me Fecit, 8)
Modern scholarship on the Antwerp painter Joos van Cleve has been in high gear since Cécile Scailliérez first devoted an in-house exhibition to the artist at the Louvre in 1991. Important exhibitions [...] Read More
Der Braunschweiger Monogrammist: Wegbereiter der niederländischen Genremalerei vor Bruegel
Among the numerous painters active in the Netherlands during the sixteenth century, one of the most controversial is the Braunschweiger Monogrammist, so named after a painting in the Herzog [...] Read More
Space, Place and Ornament: The Function of Landscape in Medieval Manuscript Illumination
Margaret Goehring proposes the need for a new paradigm for the study of medieval landscapes, one that moves beyond anachronistic concepts of pictorial landscape formulated in Renaissance and [...] Read More
Staging the Court of Burgundy (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 69)
Staging the Court of Burgundy. Proceedings of the Conference “The Splendour of Burgundy” presents a selection of thirty-three essays delivered at a three-day symposium in Bruges that accompanied the [...] Read More
Emotions. Pain and Pleasure in Dutch Painting of the Golden Age
The 2010 issue of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, edited by Stephanie Dickey and Herman Roodenburg and devoted to ‘The Passions in the Arts of the Netherlands’ and several other recent [...] Read More