In August of 1561, the leading guild of rederijkers (i.e. rhetoricians) in Antwerp, De Violieren, played host to a Landjuweel (literally "land jewel," named after the silver prizes awarded on such [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Two Books on Stained Glass
Joost M.A. Caen, The Production of Stained Glass in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant from the XVth to the XVIIth Centuries: Materials and Techniques (Corpus Vitrearum Belgium, Studies). [...] Read More
The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. III. Part 2: From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition. Europe and the World Beyond
At last! HNA's readership, dominated by a historical focus on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, has chiefly remained outsiders to the foundational studies of this series of references about the [...] Read More
The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans
Among the paintings attributed to Geertgen tot Sint Jans and his circle, a number of small-sized panels have a special place. Decker's study concentrates on the ways in which these works served [...] Read More
Hans Memling: Master Painter in Fifteenth-Century Bruges
Hans Memling is one of the most famous artists of the late fifteenth-century. His reputation among scholars, however, has been mixed. Max Friedländer criticized the painter for lacking passion of [...] Read More
The Viewer and the Printed Image in Late Medieval Europe
David Areford's marvelous book offers his readers the opportunity to reconsider early woodcuts and metalcuts in new ways. He not only effectively shows how these ephemeral and inexpensive images were [...] Read More