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Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity: Picturing Unruly Nature

By Christine Göttler and Mia M. Mochizuki, eds.

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. 426 pp, 147 illus. ISBN 978-9463729437.

Review published September 2023

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

Alabaster Sculpture in Europe, 1300-1650

By Marjan Debaene, ed.

Exh. Cat. M Leuven, October 14, 2022 – February 26, 2023. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2022. 312 pp, 360 col. illus. ISBN 978-1-912554-92-8.

Review published September 2023

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

Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe

By Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer, and Claudia Swan, with contributions by Stephanie S. Dickey, Anna Grasskamp, and Róisín Watson

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021. 214 pp, 84+ color illus. ISBN 9780691215761.

Review published March 2023

A very handsome book replete with full-color photographs, Conchophilia is a joy to read, as appealing and stimulating as the curiosities it considers. Comprising an introduction and six chapters, the [...] Read More

Europe Views the World, 1500-1700 (Northern Lights Series)

By Larry Silver

London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd., 2022. 200 pp, 83 b&w, 16 col illus. ISBN 9781848225473.

Review published March 2023

Larry Silver has long been a prominent advocate for the study of world art. His Art in History, a textbook published three decades ago, was one of the first of its kind to present “views from the [...] Read More

The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Multiplied and Modified

By Grażyna Jurkowlaniec and Magdalena Herman, eds.

London: Routledge Press, 2021, 324 pp., ISBN 978-0-367-46511-7.

Review published November 2021

As its title’s use of the word “reception” suggests, this anthology presents essays on responses to prints. The foregrounding of reception may daunt some scholars. After all, as an interpretive model, [...] Read More

Many Antwerp Hands. Collaborations in Netherlandish Art

By Abigail Newman and Lieneke Nijkamp, eds.

London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2021. 238 pp. ISBN 978-1-912554-73-7.

Review published October 2021

Growing out of a 2018 conference at the Rubenianum in Antwerp, this cluster of essays interrogates a significant phenomenon in Antwerp painting, especially from the seventeenth century: collaboration [...] Read More

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