Funerals are for the living, not the dead, conventional wisdom tells us. Anne Morganstern’s book reminds us that funeral monuments are for the living, too. This book identifies and interprets a [...] Read More
Miscellaneous
Le château de Boussu (Études et Documents, Monuments et Sites, 8.)
Though little known today, Netherlandish châteaux of the Renaissance once enjoyed a formidable reputation, serving as centres of aristocratic culture and illustrious patronage. With Charles V an [...] Read More
Three Volumes New Hollstein: Schnitzer, Groeningen, Van Doetecum
Hollstein’s German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700; volume XLVI: Johann Schnitzer to Lucas Schnitzer. Compiled by Ursula Mielke, edited by Tilman Falk. Rotterdam: Sound and Vision [...] Read More
Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection
One of sixteen catalogues of the extensive Lehman collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and Islamic and Asian art, this volume covers the 153 European drawings that were brought together [...] Read More
Kunst voor de Markt/Art for the Market, 1500-1700 (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek/Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, vol. 50, 1999)
When the author of the first history of Netherlandish art, Karel van Mander, looked back on the origins of his subject, he would note that "in the time of the two Van Eycks, the city of Bruges was [...] Read More
Hof-, Staats- en Stadsceremonies/Court, State and City Ceremonies (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek/Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, vol. 49, 1998)
The Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek stands apart from the majority of art history periodicals by its policy of devising every issue around a single theme. Recent volumes devoted to a single [...] Read More