The beauty of Alfred Acres's book is that it takes themes, or better, ideas that are so familiar – those intimations of the Passion or of evil in scenes of Christ's Infancy – and shows how dense with [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Picturing the “Pregnant” Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550: Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
Scholarship has often explained Mary Magdalene’s great popularity in the Renaissance in terms of her flexible iconography and her ability to address diverse audiences. One of the many strengths of [...] Read More
Mary Magdalene: Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque (Studies in Religion and the Arts 7)
Mary Magdalene is hot – in current scholarship, that is. Although studies of the cult and iconography of the Magdalene were surprisingly limited until relatively recently, books by Susan Haskins [...] Read More
Illuminated Crusader Histories for Philip the Good of Burgundy (Ars Nova. Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Northern Painting and Illumination XII)
Elizabeth Moodey has written an elegant book with a clear and didactic structure. While starting out with the goal to “consider Philip [the Good] as a patron of history writing and of illuminated [...] Read More
Re-Making the Margin. The Master of the David Scenes and Flemish Manuscript Painting around 1500
Re-Making the Margin, based on the author’s 2002 dissertation,discusses a new style of decorating books that became prominent around 1500. As-Vijvers identifies the Master of the David Scenes as the [...] Read More
Two New Studies on Dürer
Stephanie Buck and Stephanie Porras, The Young Dürer: Drawing the Figure. Cat. exh. Courtauld Gallery, London, October 17, 2013 – January 12, 2014. London: Courtauld Gallery 2013. 287 pp, fully [...] Read More