Art historical publications in English are paying increasing attention to artists active in what is called Germany today. Life and works of the most famous early modern artists in Germany, especially [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Pieter Bruegel
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
Willem Key (1516 – 1568): Portrait of a Humanist Painter, with an Appendix to the Oeuvre of Adriaen Thomasz. Key (Pictura Nova, XVII: Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing)
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
Als in een spiegel: Vrede, kennis en gemeenschap op het Antwerpse landjuweel van 1561 (Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen, CXXXII)
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
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