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The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe; Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America

By Stephanie Porras; Aaron Hyman
Review published February 2024

Stephanie Porras, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023, 186 pp, ISBN 9780271092836. [...] Read More

Vermeer and the Art of Love (Northern Lights)

By Aneta Georgievska-Shine

London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd., 2022. 160pp, 93 col. illus. ISBN 978-1848224896.

Review published February 2024

When one looks deeply at a Vermeer, one often borrows – however contingently – a lover’s rapt gaze. As Edward Snow observed, the painter’s “most profoundly dialectical”[1] tendencies hold the viewer’s [...] Read More

Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-Century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune (Northern Lights)

By Wayne Franits

London: Lund Humphries, 2023. 168 pp, 60 col. illus. ISBN 978-1848225466.

Review published February 2024

Wayne Franits’s second monograph on Godefridus Schalcken (1643-1706) reads as an ardent love letter to the late seventeenth-century Dutch artist. A meticulous analysis of a selection of paintings from [...] Read More

Baroque Influencers: Jesuits, Rubens and the Arts of Persuasion; Jesuit Art (Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies)

By Pierre Delsaerdt and Esther Van Thielen, eds.; Mia M. Mochizuki

Pierre Delsaerdt and Esther Van Thielen, eds., Baroque Influencers: Jesuits, Rubens and the Arts of Persuasion. Veurne, Belgium: Hannibal Books, 2023, 207 pp, richly illustrated. ISBN 978-9464666311.

Mia M. Mochizuki, Jesuit Art (Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies). Leiden: Brill, 2023, 219 pp, 71 illus. ISBN 978-9004462519.

Review published February 2024

The interest in the Society of Jesus has exploded in the last few decades. Jesuit art and religious culture have been the subjects of a remarkable number of books, exhibition catalogues, and [...] Read More

Jan van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment: Solving a Conundrum

By Maryan W. Ainsworth, ed.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022. 195 pp, 170 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-59690-7.

Review published February 2024

In the course of a new research project on the Crucifixion and Last Judgment in The Metropolitan Museum of Art – star works, attributed to Jan van Eyck – Maryan Ainsworth and her colleagues made the [...] Read More

Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300–1700

By Diane Wolfthal

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. 272 pp., 170 color illus. ISBN 9780300234879.

Review published January 2024

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

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