Book Reviews

Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550

By Joni M. Hand

Farnham (Surrey)/ Burlington (Vermont): Ashgate 2013. xii, 251 pp, 51 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-409-45023-8

Review published April 2014

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

By Alessandra Baroni and Manfred Sellink

With contributions by Alessandro Cecchi, Albert Elen, Sandra Janssens, Robert G. La France, Marjolein Leesberg, Lucia Meoni, and Gert Jan van der Sman. [Exh. cat. Groeningemuseum, Bruges, October 9, 2008 – January 4, 2009.] Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2012. 380 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978–2–503–52996–7

Review published November 2013

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)

By Tatjana Bartsch and Peter Seiler, eds.

Berlin: Gebr. Mann 2012. 181 pp, 98 illus, 74 in color. ISBN 978-3-786-12672-0

Review published November 2013

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

By Anne T. Woollett, Yvonne Szafran, and Alan Phenix

[Exh. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 5, 2012 – January 13, 2013.] Los Angeles: Getty Publications 2012. 92 pp, 68 color, 21 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-60606-112-1

Review published November 2013

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

Jan Rombouts: The Discovery of an Early Sixteenth-Century Master in Louvain (Ars Nova 16)

By Yvette Bruijnen

Turnhout: Brepols 2011. 312 pp, fully illustrated. ISBN 978-2-503-52569-3

Review published November 2013

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)

By Sytske Weidema and Anna Koopstra

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2012. vi, 177pp, 90 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-905375-69-1

Review published November 2013

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