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
Book Reviews
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
Inganno. The Art of Deception. Imitation, Reception, and Deceit in Early Modern Art
The Italian in its title (inganno means "deception") ought to give away the fact that this book is really not intended for HNA members, despite its otherwise neutral designated subject of "early [...] Read More
Albrecht Dürer. His Art in Context
Hard on the heels of the blockbuster Nuremberg exhibition, The Early Dürer, of last year (reviewed in this journal November 2012), Frankfurt now presents its own reassessment with a wider reach. Let [...] Read More