In 1959 Julius Held concluded the section on Rubens’s inscriptions on drawings in his authoritative and stimulating discussion of the artist’s graphic work (Rubens. Selected Drawings, 1959, rev. [...] Read More
Book Reviews
L’Europe de Rubens
The present publication accompanied the first temporary exhibition held at the newly built off-site ‘dépendance’ of the Louvre in the former mining town of Lens in northern France. To mark the opening [...] Read More
Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print
During the third quarter of the sixteenth century, Antwerp’s Hieronymus Cock (1518 - 1570) was the most important publisher of printed imagery north of the Alps, if not in all Europe. Fittingly, he [...] Read More
The Flemish Primitives VI: The Bernard van Orley Group. Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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
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