Susan Dackerman has done it again. Her first major print exhibition dropped jaws and opened eyes to an early graphic phenomenon known only partially but originally widespread: Painted Prints [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Hugo van der Goes and the Procedures of Art and Salvation ( Harvey Miller Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 49)
Scholarly attention to Hugo van der Goes has increased in recent years, and the present book, a revised and expanded version of the author's 1999 doctoral dissertation written at Columbia University, [...] Read More
Golgatha in den Konfessionen und Medien der Frühen Neuzeit (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 113)
This collection of 14 essays by foremost German scholars represents an interdisciplinary approach to church history and the function of imagery within it. It includes a substantial, posthumously [...] Read More
Two Publications on Rembrandt Drawings
Seymour Slive, Rembrandt Drawings. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 260 pp, 197 color, 46 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-89236-976-8. Holm Bevers, Lee Hendrix, William W. Robinson, Peter [...] Read More
The Image of the Black in Western Art III. 1. From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
"Much awaited" declares the jacket copy on this handsome book, Part 1 of the missing link in the great series of a generation ago, The Image of the Black in Western Art, begun under the auspices of [...] Read More
Clandestine Splendor. Paintings for the Catholic Church in the Dutch Republic
Thanks to paintings by Emmanuel de Witte and Pieter Saenredam, it is easy to visualize the interior of a Reformed church in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic: it is a soaring, creamy space, [...] Read More