It is always a cause for celebration when a book forces you to look at even familiar works of art with new appreciation. Renaissance Gothic is a remarkably stimulating analysis of architectural [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Saintly Brides and Bridegrooms: The Mystic Marriage in Northern Renaissance Art (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 70)
Although mystical experiences, by definition, are beyond the capacity of words and images, this did not discourage late medieval authors and artists from describing them. In this book, Muir discusses [...] Read More
Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550
There is no longer any doubt that women were key players in the manuscript culture of medieval and early modern northern Europe. Women made, sold, and commissioned manuscripts, they presented and [...] Read More
Stradanus 1523-1605: Court Artist of the Medici
Alessandra Baroni, Manfred Sellink, curator Till-Holger Borchert (one of the members of the exhibition committee), and a team of scholars have collaborated to produce this informative and handsome [...] Read More
Rom zeichnen. Maarten van Heemskerck 1532-1536/37 (Humboldt-Schriften zur Kunst- und Bildgeschichte VIII)
Published as volume 8 in the Humboldt-Schriften zur Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, this instructive volume on Maarten van Heemkerck’s Roman drawings is a welcome addition to Van Heemskerck scholarship. [...] Read More
Drama and Devotion. Heemskerck’s Ecce Homo Altarpiece from Warsaw
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