Book Reviews

Rubens. The Life of Christ before the Passion: The Youth of Christ (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, V, 1)

By Hans Devisscher and Hans Vlieghe

London: Harvey Miller Publishers, an Imprint of Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2014, 2 vols. 400 pp, 109 b&w illus., 95 col. illus. ISBN 978-1-872501-71-0

Review published April 2016

This beautifully produced two-volume addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard is dominated by the large number of representations of the Adoration of the Magi and the Adoration of the [...] Read More

The Flemish Merchant of Venice: Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection

By Christina M. Anderson

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2015. 264 pp, 50 color illus. ISBN 978-0-300-20968-6

Review published April 2016

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

Joos van Cleve: A Sixteenth-Century Antwerp Artist and his Workshop (Me Fecit, 8)

By Micha Leeflang

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. 234 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-2-503-55436-5

Review published April 2016

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

By Matthias Ubl

Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, with the cooperation of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2014. 448 pp, 463 illus., 85 in b&w. ISBN 978-3-7319-0030-6

Review published April 2016

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

By Margaret Goehring

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2013. 214 pp, 16 color and 85 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-52977-6

Review published April 2016

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)

By T.-H. Borchert, W. Blockmans, N. Gabriëls, J. Oosterman and A. Van Oosterwijk, eds.

London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2013. 394 pp, 65 col. pls, numerous b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-905375-82-0

Review published April 2016

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

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