Extending the insights in his own new book, Antwerp after Iconoclasm(Yale/ Mercatorfonds, 2012; reviewed separately), Koen Jonckheere has also co-edited a complementary anthology of essays on the same [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Antwerp Art after Iconoclasm. Experiments in Decorum 1566-1585
Like any history, Netherlandish art has its awkward in-between stages. In the early modern instance, this neglected period is defined by the generation between the death of Bruegel and before the [...] Read More
De Cartons van de Sint-Janskerk in Gouda/ The Cartoons of the Sint-Janskerk in Gouda
This beautifully produced volume presents all the cartoons, now newly restored, associated with the monumental glazing program of the Sint-Janskerk in Gouda, one of the most important series of [...] Read More
Dürer and Beyond. Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700
Over the past two decades and under the leadership of George Goldner, the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Drawings and Prints has built up its holdings in areas that were previously [...] Read More
Two Books on Pre-Eyckian Painting
Dominique Deneffe, Famke Peters and Wim Fremout, eds., Pre-Eyckian Panel Painting in the Low Countries. Vol. I: Catalogue, by Dominique Deneffe, Famke Peters, Wim Fremout et al.; Vol. II: Essays, by [...] Read More
Le ‘Ci nous dit’: L’image médiévale et la culture des laïcs au XIVe siècle : les enluminures du manuscrit de Chantilly
Ci nous dit, originally known as Une composition de la Sainte Ecriture, was written around 1320 by an anonymous author perhaps in the region around Soissons, and survives today in 18 exemplars. The [...] Read More