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
Book Reviews
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
Women at the Burgundian Court: Presence and Influence / Femmes à La Cour de Bourgogne: Présence et Influence (Burgundica XVII)
The editors of this anthology have collected papers stemming from the 2005 exhibition and conference in Mechelen, Women of Distinction: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria, which examined the era [...] Read More
In and Out of the Marital Bed. Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe
Diane Wolfthal's In and Out of the Marital Bed; Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe is a fascinating examination of a subject that, until recently, has been taboo in mainstream art-historical [...] Read More
Virtual Pilgrimages in the Convent: Imagining Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages (Disciplina Monastica 8. Studies on Medieval Monastic Life; Études sur la Vie Monastique au Moyen Age)
When going on a long journey to a distant place, it is helpful to have an experienced guide. Dante had his Virgil; travelers on the Grand Tour had their Baedekers. Religious women of the late middle [...] Read More
Three Books on Pieter Bruegel
Walter Gibson, Figures of Speech: Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xv, 236 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 978-0-520-25954-6. Gerald [...] Read More