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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

Als Kunstgeschichte populär wurde. Illustrierte Kunstbuchserien 1860-1960 und der Kanon der Westlichen Kunst

By Friederike Kitschen

Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2021. 390 pp. 51 ills.
ISBN 978-3-87157-256-2.

Review published August 2021

Did you ever wonder how the particular names inscribed on the cornices of major museums in Europe and America were chosen when those civic institutions were built? This new book by Friederike Kitschen [...] Read More

Connoisseurship and the Knowledge of Art, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 69, 2019

By H. Perry Chapman, Thijs Weststeijn, and Dulcia Meijers, eds.

Leiden: Brill, 2019. 372 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-40916-3.

Review published March 2020

Half a century ago, when I was a graduate student, art scholarship largely boiled down to connoisseurship; even iconography was considered over-interpretive (and the case can still be made that within [...] Read More

Condition: The Ageing of Art

By Paul Taylor

London: Paul Holberton, 2015. 264 pp, 140 color illus. ISBN 978-190-7372 79-7

Review published April 2017

Paul Taylor’s Condition: The Ageing of Art provides an invaluable introduction to a topic often overlooked by art historians: how the chemistry of materials collides with the caprices of time, and how [...] Read More

Inganno. The Art of Deception. Imitation, Reception, and Deceit in Early Modern Art

By Sharon Gregory and Sally Anne Hickson, eds

Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate 2012. 204 pp, 21 b & w illus. ISBN 978-1-4094-3149-7

Review published April 2014

The Italian in its title (inganno means "deception") ought to give away the fact that this book is really not intended for HNA members, despite its otherwise neutral designated subject of "early [...] Read More

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