Munuscola Amicorum – friends’ little gifts – is the title of a two-volume, densely written tribute to an admired and productive art historian: Hans Vlieghe. Your reviewer would have gladly added his [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty. Tapestries at the Tudor Court
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Florissant: Bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis der Nederlanden (15de – 17de eeuw). Liber Amicorum Carl Van de Velde
The writings of Carl Van de Velde are well-known to all students of Netherlandish art. The publication Florissant – its title a play on one of Van de Velde’s favorite subjects – serves as a [...] Read More
Early Engravers and their Public. The Master of the Berlin Passion and Manuscripts from Convents in the Rhine-Maas Region, ca. 1450-1500
Ursula Weekes’s book on early Northern engravings focuses on the ambit of a particular printmaker, the Master of the Berlin Passion. This fine study does not attempt to treat all prints by the Master [...] Read More
Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545-c. 1589, Portrait of a Calvinist Painter (Pictura Nova, XIV)
Until the publication of this dedicated rescue operation, Adriaen Thomasz. has been one of the most ill-defined artists working in Antwerp during the turbulent times of the second half of the [...] Read More
Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter
In the Prologue, Walter Gibson describes his book as a more detailed version of the study of laughter that extends the fourth chapter of his earlier book, Pleasant Places (2000). However, here the [...] Read More