Book Reviews

Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

By Lieve Watteeuw and Catherine Reynolds

(Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts 20: Low Countries Series 15, published by Illuminare. Centre for the Study of Medieval Art, Leuven, ed. Jan Van der Stock). Paris/Leuven/ Walpole, MA: Peeters 2013. 301 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-90-429-2915-9

Review published November 2013

In recent years, the number of libraries, both large and small, that have made their collections of illuminated manuscripts available via the internet and published catalogues has grown exponentially. [...] Read More

Luxury Bound: Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550) (Burgundica 16)

By Hanno Wijsman

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2010. xiv, 717 pp, 43 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-52558-7

Review published November 2013

Hanno Wijsman’s remarkable work addresses three themes: the “supply and demand” for illustrated manuscripts; “the relationship between … manuscript[s] and … printed book[s];” and “developments in book [...] Read More

Late Gothic Wall Painting in the Southern Netherlands

By Carina Fryklund

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2011. iv, 435 pp, 80 color, 454 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-51237-2

Review published November 2013

Carina Fryklund takes as her subject the development of figurative wall painting in the southern Low Countries in the period 1300 to 1500. In doing so, she offers insight into a form of monumental [...] Read More

Hans von Aachen in Context

By Lubomir Konecny and Stepán Vácha with Beket Bukovinská, eds., assisted by Markéta Jezková and Eliska Zlatohlávková

Prague: Institute of Art History 2012. 280 pp. ISBN 978-80-86890-42-5

Review published November 2013

The major 2010-11 exhibition, Hans von Aachen (1552-1615): A Court Artist in Europe generated widespread interest at its three venues (Aachen-Prague-Vienna) and occasioned an international conference [...] Read More

Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings 1475-1540

By Gregory Jecmen and Freyda Spira

[Cat. exh. National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 30 – December 31, 2012; Jack S. Blanton Museum, University of Texas at Austin, October 5, 2013 – January 5, 2014; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, September 19 – December 14, 2014.] Washington DC: National Gallery of Art in association with Ashgate/Lund Humphries Publishing Company 2012. 120 pp, with color illus. ISBN 978-1-84822-122-2

Review published November 2013

During the Renaissance, the imperial city of Augsburg in southern Germany became an important artistic center. Its financial prosperity in banking and trade – as seen in the enormous wealth of the [...] Read More

German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600

By Maryan W. Ainsworth and Joshua P. Waterman

With contributions by Timothy B. Husband and Karen E. Thomas, with Dorothy Mahon, Charlotte Hale, George Bisacca, Silvia A. Centeno and Peter Klein. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2013. 376 pp, 300 color, 40 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14897-8

Review published November 2013

Hard on the heels of a major catalogue of German drawings at New York's Metropolitan Museum, compiled by Stijn Alsteens and Freyda Spira (reviewed in this journal April 2013), comes a new catalogue of [...] Read More

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