This extensive book, written largely by Krista De Jonge and Konrad Ottenheym, with contributions by Joris Snaet, Gabri van Tussenbroek, and Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, is an important contribution to the [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Images for the Eye and Soul: Function and Meaning in Netherlandish Prints (1450-1650)
Images for the Eye and Soul is a collection of eleven essays by Ilja Veldman, a premier scholar of Netherlandish prints. For the past three decades, Veldman has investigated many aspects of early [...] Read More
Neugier & Sammelbild. Rezeptionsästhetische Studien zu gemalten Sammlungen in der niederländischen Malerei ca. 1550-1650
While obviously a dissertation publication with mediocre production values of fuzzy, small black-and-white images under discussion, this nevertheless is an impressive work of synthesis, offering a [...] Read More
Painting and Politics in Northern Europe: Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens, and Their Contemporaries
Beautifully illustrated and clearly written, Margaret Carroll's book examines a selection of fifteenth-, sixteenth-, and seventeenth-century works of art through the filter of political and social [...] Read More
Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Proteus: Studies in Early Modern Identity Formation, 1)
This volume is the first in the series Proteus: Studies in Early Modern Identity Formation, and it is based on papers from the first Lovis Corinth Colloquium, held at Emory University in April 2003. [...] Read More
The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588-1629). Catalogue Raisonné (Oculi: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, vol. 10)
This book is the result of an unusual collaboration. When he died unexpectedly in August 2003, Leonard J. Slatkes left behind copious fractional entries and an elaborate photo archive for the present [...] Read More