New York: Abbeville Press, 2011. 464 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-0-7892-1104-0
The art of Pieter Bruegel is enjoying a renaissance. This is not limited to art historians, for whom the Bruegel scholarship industry has been in high gear for several decades. The artist's appeal [...] Read More
Turnhout: Brepols 2011. 345 pp, ISBN 978-2-503-53678-1
In 2007, Koenraad Jonckheere published a study of the Antwerp painter, Adriaen Thomasz. Key, under Brepols’s “Pictura Nova” imprint (Adriaen Thomasz. Key (ca. 1545 – ca. 1589): Portrait of a Calvinist [...] Read More
Hilversum: Verloren, ca. 2011, 406 pp., 72 ills
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
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
Gen. eds. David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 496pp, 271 illus. ISBN 978-0-674-05262-8
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
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 182 pp, 19 b&w and 5 color illus. ISBN 978-0-7546-6453-6
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