This marvelous Festschrift’s subtitle Collaborative Spirit captures one of the defining characteristics of Maryan Ainsworth’s celebrated career as a curator, teacher, and prolific scholar. The three [...] Read More
Book Reviews
The Stained Glass of Herkenrode Abbey (Corpus Vitrearum, Great Britain, 7)
During the sixteenth century, a wealth of historiated stained glass filled the interiors of religious and secular buildings in the Netherlands, yet only a fraction of these luminous panes remains in [...] Read More
Rubens. Study Heads and Anatomical Studies: Anatomical Studies. Edited by Nils Büttner and Brecht Vanoppen (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XX [1])
While this latest addition to the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard may initially seem like a comparatively modest undertaking vis-à-vis other studies of aspects of Rubens’s oeuvre published in this [...] Read More
Artists’ and Artisans’ Collections in Early Modern Antwerp: Catalysts of Innovation (Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art)
This beautifully produced book is a product of years of extensive research and study of a fascinating subject: the collecting culture in early modern Antwerp, with focus on the collections of artists [...] Read More
The Fertile Ground of Painting: Seventeenth-Century Still Lifes & Nature Pieces
Attempts to reconstruct how early modern Europeans understood the workings of visual representation have usually conceptualized the mimetic picture as either a mirror reflecting the world or a window [...] Read More
Philipp Hainhofer: Handeln mit Kunst und Politik
An entrepreneurial furniture salesman from the south German city of Augsburg who mediated cultural exchanges between princely, ducal, and private patrons, the merchant Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647) [...] Read More