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The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans

By John R. Decker

Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 182 pp, 19 b&w and 5 color illus. ISBN 978-0-7546-6453-6

Review published April 2012

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

By Barbara Lane

Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009. 390 pp, 302 b&w and 32 color illus. ISBN 978-1-9053-7519-6

Review published April 2012

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

By David S. Areford

Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 312 pp, 111 b&w and 16 color illus. ISBN 978-0-7546-6762-9

Review published April 2012

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)

By Dagmar Eichberger, Anne-Marie Legaré and Wim Hüsken, eds.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. 182 pp, 39 b&w and 26 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-52288-3

Review published April 2012

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

By Diane Wolfthal

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. 252 pp, 70 b&w and 30 color illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14154-2

Review published April 2012

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)

By Kathryn M. Rudy

Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. 475 pp, 93 b&w and 14 color illus. ISBN 978-2-503-54103-7

Review published April 2012

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

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