Greatly appreciated and admired by his contemporaries, Jan Brueghel the Elder today is among the most underrated artists around 1600. In the diverse travel accounts of the time, Rubens, still highly [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Black is Beautiful. Rubens to Dumas
In the summer of 2008, a fascinating exhibition about the representation of black people by Dutch and Flemish artists, from late medieval to modern times, was held at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. The [...] Read More
Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Karen Bowen and Dirk Imhof have written a major contribution to the literature on the Plantin Press in Antwerp, with special relevance for scholars of the history of printmaking. Imhof, a curator at [...] Read More
Die Zeichnungen von Adam Elsheimer. Kritischer Katalog
This beautiful, lavishly produced book of the twenty-seven drawings by Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610) does not accompany an exhibition; rather it pays homage to this artist from Frankfurt, who died young [...] Read More
Das Königreich am Dreikönigstag. Eine historisch-empirische Ritualstudie
In recent years – primarily inspired by the publication in 1997 of Edward Muir´s Ritual in Early Modern Europe – scholars have focused on the question of the role of rituals within a community and [...] Read More
The Fool’s Journey. A Myth of Obsession in Northern Renaissance Art
The pronounced investment in the theme of folly exhibited by the visual culture of early modern northern Europe forms the subject of Yona Pinson’s new volume. Though the object of considerable [...] Read More