Yannis Hadjinicolaou’s new book introduces its topic, an anonymous seventeenth-century Dutch portrait of Saifuddin, Sultan of the North Moluccan island of Tidore, through the publication most of us [...] Read More
Book Reviews
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
The Bormans were a family of sculptors who dominated sculptural production in Brussels from the late fifteenth century through the first third of the sixteenth century. Their works significantly [...] Read More
Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750
Those who favor exhibitions that dazzle through variety would have appreciated Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750. A collaborative project by curators Virginia Treanor [...] Read More
Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation: Training the Literate Eye
Few topics have attracted more attention in recent literature on the intersections of early modern art, science, and intellectual history than the “epistemic image.” This is a type of visual culture [...] Read More
Dürer’s Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition
In a letter written from Venice on September 8, 1506, two of Albrecht Dürer’s garments said hello to the humanist Willibald Pirckheimer: “My French mantle greets you and my Italian coat also.” [...] Read More
Pride and Solace: Medieval Books of Hours and Their Readers
For manuscript enthusiasts, 2025 was dominated by the blockbuster exhibition displaying the calendar of the Très Riches Heures (and many related items) at the castle of Chantilly, just outside Paris. [...] Read More