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)

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

Three Books on Pieter Bruegel

By various authors

Review published November 2011

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

By various authors

Review published November 2011

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

By Jochai Rosen

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. 216 pp, 140 illus., including 105 in color. ISBN 978-90-8964-204-2

Review published November 2011

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

By Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat

Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2009. 337 pp, 144 color illus. (including monochrome prints), 14 full-page color plates, ISBN 978-3-412-20446-4

Review published November 2011

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

Credo. Meisterwerke der Glaubenskunst

By Alexandra Dern and Ursula Härting, eds.

[Cat. exh. Mettingen, Draiflessen, October 16, 2010 - January 9, 2011.] Mettingen: Forum der Draiflessen Collection, 2010. 320 pp, numerous illus. ISBN 978-3-942359-00-9 (German); 978-3-942359-00-3 (Dutch); 978-3-942359-00-6 (English)

Review published November 2011

This richly documented catalogue, which was published in three languages, accompanied the exhibition organized in 2010-11 by the 'Forum der Draiflessen Collection' in Mettingen. The Draiflessen [...] Read More