During the last decade, a growing body of literature has redefined our views of many leading Netherlandish artists working in the first half of the sixteenth century. These studies include the [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Grand Design. Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry
Two important publications have appeared on the art of tapestry maker, painter, printer, publisher, and stained glass designer, Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Aelst, 1502 – Brussels, 1550). The main work is [...] Read More
National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings with French Paintings before 1600
Surely for scholars the most important contribution that a museum curator can provide is a systematic catalogue of the paintings in the permanent collection, the more so in a major collection. Thus [...] Read More
Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book: Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio from Venice to Jerusalem
Elizabeth Ross writes convincing arguments in elegant prose. Moreover, her book is a refreshing, jargon-free study, dripping with ideas and analysis. Penn State Press has outdone itself to produce [...] Read More
‘A la mode italienne’. Commerce du luxe et diplomatie dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux, 1477-1530. Edition criticque de documents de la Chambre des comptes de Lille
This book comes as a surprise, as it is an unusual book, both in terms of its subject matter and in terms of its method. The Italian art historian Federica Veratelli undertook several years of [...] Read More
Men of Taste. Essays on Art Collecting in East-Central Europe
A milestone in art history scholarship was laid down a quarter-century ago with the founding of the Journal of the History of Collections, and incrementally our gaps of knowledge of provenance and [...] Read More