Erin Griffey in this attractive book fills out our picture of Queen Henrietta Maria, the valiant but controversial consort of King Charles I of Great Britain, by describing the material culture that [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Rubens. Mythological Subjects: Achilles to the Graces (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI, 1)
The publication of the first volume on Rubens’s mythological paintings is another milestone for the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, arguably the longest and most exhaustive catalogue raisonńe [...] Read More
Moving Pictures. Intra-European Trade in Images, 16th-18th Centuries (Studies in European Urban History, 1100-1800, 34)
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
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