One of the edges of current scholarship interrogates the constructed boundary between words and images. This collection of twenty essays, originally papers presented at the Third Lovis Corinth [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Trans-formation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts (Intersections 19)
The present volume, part of Intersections, Brill’s interdisciplinary series on early modern culture, contains eleven essays and an introduction with a broad geographic, temporal and material scope. [...] Read More
Imitation and Illusion. Applied Brocade in the Art of the Low Countries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Scientia Artis 6)
Occasionally a publication elicits envy for its scholarly scope and depth: Imitation and Illusion, beautifully illustrated, is such a book. Applied brocade is a very specific technique of [...] Read More
Hubert et Jan van Eyck: Créateurs de l’Agneau mystique
In this beautifully illustrated volume, Châtelet surveys the work of Jan van Eyck, while distinguishing it from his less known brother Hubert. Although there is not enough evidence to indicate who [...] Read More
Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum
For anyone who has stood before Rogier van der Weyden’s Depositionin the Prado, the notion that the painting – with its hyper-realistic details and emotional intensity – is inherently iconoclastic [...] Read More
Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted
Despite the popularity of the triptych format in early Netherlandish painting, it has received too little attention. Hopefully, Jacobs’s magnificent book will renew interest and encourage greater [...] Read More