This multi-author volume edited by Christine Göttler and Mia M. Mochizuki is a welcome addition to the environmental humanities. As its title suggests, the book draws our attention to differences [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting. First English Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 62)
As an experienced and distinguished scholar who has spent a substantial part of his career studying Karel van Mander, Walter Melion[1] certainly knew what he was getting into when he took up the [...] Read More
Alabaster Sculpture in Europe, 1300-1650
For much of the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period, alabaster was often the material of choice for sculptors in various European centers, creating works ranging from the intimate to the [...] Read More
Painting Flanders Abroad: Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 17)
This book is based on the PhD thesis submitted to Princeton University by Abigail Newman, a recently appointed deputy curator at the Rubenshuis in Antwerp. The author starts her survey with the [...] Read More
Frans Hals. The Male Portrait
This book is the catalogue of a small exhibition held at the Wallace Collection in London, centered on the dashing portrait of a young man signed and dated by Hals in 1624 and nicknamed by [...] Read More
Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World
Fire swept through the Residenz palace in Munich in 1729. One casualty was the central panel of Albrecht Dürer’s Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin Mary Altarpiece, created between 1507 and 1509 [...] Read More