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
Book Reviews
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
Two Publications on Gabriel Metsu and Eglon van der Neer
Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Pieter Roelofs and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., with contributions by Wayne E. Franits, E. Melanie Gifford, Bianca M. du Mortier, Pieter Roelofs, Marijn Schapelhouman, and Linda [...] Read More
Soldiers at Leisure, The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age
Soldiers at Leisure, The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age builds on Jochai Rosen's dissertation "Jacob Duck and the 'Guardroom' Painters: Minor Masters as Inventors in [...] Read More
Das Sichtbare und das Unsichtbare: Zur holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts
Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat's choice of a title for her book echoes that of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological examination of the relations between reflection, dialectic and intuition (1964) and [...] Read More