At the end of every quarter, we like to summarize the book and exhibition catalog reviews posted to HNAR in case you missed any (or are looking for some summer reading.)
Reviews (April-June):
- Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750. By Virginia Treanor and Frederica Van Dam (curators)
- Borman in Context; Un trésor dévoilé: Le Retable de l’Adoration des Mages du xve siècle conservé à la Basilique San Nazaro Maggiore à Milan. Un chef-d’œuvre bruxellois de Jan Borman; Borman. A Family of Northern Renaissance Sculptors. By Marjan Debaene and Hannah De Moor (eds.); Emmanuelle Mercier, Catheline Périer-D’Ieteren, and Sacha Zdanov (eds); Marjan Debaene (ed).
- Der amputierte Herrscher: Ein niederländisches Porträt des Sultans von Tidore. By Yannis Hadjinicolaou
- Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages. By Melanie Holcomb and Nancy Thebaut (curators)
- Rubens. Mythological Subjects: Paris to Venus (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI, 3). By Elizabeth McGrath, Gerlinde Gruber, Gregory Martin, Koenraad Jonckheere, Bert Schepers, Nils Büttner. Edited by Elizabeth McGrath and Bert Schepers.
- Les précurseurs flamands: Rogier Van der Weyden et les frères Van Eyck au prisme de la perspective. By Ludovic Balavoine and Gilles Simon
- Beached Whale Images in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp. Symbols of Humanity’s Dominion over the Earth. By Ryan E. Gregg
- Early Netherlandish Drawings 1400-1600. By Olenka Horbatsch and Charlotte Wytema
- Willem Key and Adriaen Thomasz. Key: Fresh Perspectives on Their Oeuvres (Pictura Nova: Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, XXVIII). By Lien Vandenberghe, in collaboration with Gijs Key. Edited by Koenraad Jonckheere.
- Govert Flinck 1615-1660. By Tom van der Molen.
About HNAR:
HNA Review of Books posts reviews of recent books and exhibition catalogues in the history of the visual arts in the Netherlands from c.1350 to 1750, along with reviews of publications on German, French, and English art, and issues of global trading networks relevant to the Netherlands in this period.
More information, including how to submit a publication for consideration for review, guidelines for reviewers, and the editorial board and contact information can be found here.