Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300–1700 follows a line of enquiry on the under-represented in European society and art that the author Diane Wolfthal, professor emerita of art [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Thinking Through Rubens. Selected Studies by Arnout Balis
This memorial volume commemorates the accomplishments – many of them not visible in publications – of a leading Rubens scholar of his generation: Arnout Balis. Collecting his published articles around [...] Read More
Holbein at the Tudor Court
The spectacular 2021 Holbein portraiture exhibition, organized by Anne Woollett for the J. Paul Getty Museum and shown also at the Morgan Library & Museum (to be reviewed), might seem as if there [...] Read More
Melchior Lorck: An Artist in Transit
The Royal Collection of Graphic Art at The National Museum of Denmark (SMK) holds what is perhaps the world’s largest collection of works by Melchior Lorck (1526/7 – 1583). The exhibition Melchior [...] Read More
Art of Enterprise. Israhel van Meckenem’s 15th-Century Print Workshop
Almost a missing link between the most celebrated pioneer engravers of the fifteenth century, Master ES and Martin Schongauer, is a less familiar figure, the Upper Rhenish printmaker Israhel van [...] Read More
Remember Me. Renaissance Portraits
This book was published as the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Rijksmuseum from October 1, 2021 to January 16, 2022, but it easily stands alone as an engaging introduction to the artistic and [...] Read More