Focus exhibitions have emerged to highlight the many pleasures of the Getty Museum (see also the review of the exhibition around Rubens’s Man in Korean Costume in this issue). Often they are [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Jan Rombouts: The Discovery of an Early Sixteenth-Century Master in Louvain (Ars Nova 16)
Yvette Bruijnen’s book culminates more than a decade of research in a neglected field: painting in sixteenth-century Leuven (Louvain). Notwithstanding Edward van Even’s magisterial L’ancienne école de [...] Read More
Jan Gossart: The Documentary Evidence (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 65)
Documentary source volumes offer a great resource for the study of Renaissance artists, but they also pose challenges. Compilers of such volumes face not only the labor of transcribing and editing [...] Read More
A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections, [II B]: Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings
Rarely does one see any catalogue about Northern drawings from the sixteenth century, let alone one that illustrates works from across the Midwest of the United States. The very appearance of this [...] Read More
The New Ideal of Beauty in the Age of Pieter Bruegel. Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
The remarkable doyenne of sixteenth-century Netherlandish drawings has done it again, this time on her home court. Teréz Gerszi has been publishing on the Bruegel era and its wider frame in time and [...] Read More
Ut pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500-1700 (Proteus 4)
The essays in this volume began as papers delivered at the second Lovis Corinth Colloquium, held at Emory University in 2006. Six have been substantially expanded, and the quality of all but the last [...] Read More