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
Book Reviews
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
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