Because of its location in the geographical center of the continental United States, the Nelson-Atkins Museum is perhaps less familiar than its peers, but it offers artistic treasures from almost all [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Women of Distinction: Margaret of York, Margaret of Austria
Last fall, as part of a year-long celebration, "Mechelen 2005: City in Female Hands," the city of Mechelen mounted a major exhibition, "Dames met Klasse: Margareta van York en Margareta van [...] Read More
Albrecht Dürer and the Venetian Renaissance
Katherine Crawford Luber begins her ground-breaking book on Dürer and Venice by showing that the present art historical emphasis on Dürer's prints, rather than his paintings, and the related division [...] Read More
De Schilderijen van Museum Catharijneconvent
To review a pictorial handbook is not easy. This volume provides the equivalent of what P.J.J. van Thiel and the Rijksmuseum produced a generation ago, All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum in [...] Read More
Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting
Bret Rothstein's fascinating new book is an exercise in sophisticated visual engagement. His basic premise is that certain early Netherlandish painters intellectually conceived and beautifully crafted [...] Read More
The Retablo de Isabel la Católica by Juan de Flandes and Michel Sittow ( Me fecit , 2)
In her monograph on Queen Isabel's Retablo , likely never completed and hence never assembled, Chiyo Ishikawa meticulously and convincingly examines that work of private devotion, commissioned in 1496 [...] Read More