At long last, the Flemish painters whose gaze turned towards Renaissance Italy are receiving their scholarly (and public) due. Sparking this “Northern Ren” turn, Maryan Ainsworth’s seminal Jan Gossart [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Pieter Bruegel and the Culture of the Early Modern Dinner Party (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
Goldstein’s book is the third volume on Bruegel published by Ashgate in as many years (Margaret Sullivan’s 2010 Bruegel and the Creative Process, 1559-1563, reviewed [...] Read More
Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art. Essays on Comedy as Social Vision
Comedy and laughter in the Early Modern period have been little addressed by scholarship, though Stephen Greenblatt and others have attended to laughter and Shakespeare (2004). Walter Gibson’s Pieter [...] Read More
Understanding Art in Antwerp. Classicising the Popular, Popularising the Classic (1540-1580). (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 45)
This volume addresses the interchange between what is often described as the native or vernacular tradition in Antwerp and the foreign or classical one as it was imported into that city. This [...] Read More
Spectacle, Rhetoric and Power: The Triumphal Entry of Prince Philip of Spain into Antwerp (Ludus: Medieval and Early Renaissance Theatre and Drama 11)
Spectacle, Rhetoric and Power by Stijn Bussels is certainly a valuable, praiseworthy contribution to the growing literature on Netherlandish festivals. It offers a thorough monographic study of the [...] Read More
Albrecht Bouts (1451/55 – 1549) (Contributions à l’étude des Primitifs flamands 10)
In her revised monograph on the work of Dieric Bouts (2005), Catheline Périer D’Ieteren pointed to the importance of the artist’s two sons, Dieric the Younger and Albrecht, in the development of their [...] Read More