Inspired by what he considers to have been a dramatic misrepresentation and downgrading of the court of Guelders during a key century of independence (1371-1473), Gerard Nijsten aims in this work of [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Three Volumes on Conrad von Soest
Brigitte Buberl (ed.), Conrad von Soest. Neue Forschungen über den Maler und die Kulturgeschichte der Zeit um 1400(Dortmunder Mittelalter-Forschungen. Schriften der Conrad-von-Soest-Gesellschaft. [...] Read More
Humour and Folly in Secular and Profane Prints of Northern Europe 1430-1540
Christa Grössinger will probably be best known to readers of thisReview of Books for her very useful introduction to gender issues in early northern imagery , Picturing Women in Late Medieval and [...] Read More
The Mayer van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp (Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège, 20)
With the publication of its twentieth volume, the well-known Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Painting has undergone a major facelift. As explained by the authors in their Introduction, some of the points [...] Read More
The Northern Renaissance (Art & Ideas)
In line with the aims of Phaidon’s “Art & Ideas” series, Jeffrey Chipps Smith has written a portable and reasonably priced introduction to the period for students and the general reader. His [...] Read More
Layers of Illusion: The Mayer van den Bergh Breviary
In 1994, the Mayer van den Bergh Breviary was loosed by conservators from the restrictive neo-Gothic binding that had discouraged both scholarly perusal and photography and carefully dismantled. Its [...] Read More