Some artists fall between stools in modern scholarship, because their country of origin no longer corresponds to contemporary boundaries, or else because their movements across boundaries fail to [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History)
In the course of his long and distinguished career, Larry Silver has published twelve books on Northern Renaissance art. His extraordinary productivity in this field is complemented by additional [...] Read More
Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality
In 1525, the market price of a tapestry like “Honor” (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015.396) – made for Érard de la Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liège – would approximate 108 years of a laborer’s wage. A [...] Read More
The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe; Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America
Stephanie Porras, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023, 186 pp, ISBN 9780271092836. [...] Read More
Vermeer and the Art of Love (Northern Lights)
When one looks deeply at a Vermeer, one often borrows – however contingently – a lover’s rapt gaze. As Edward Snow observed, the painter’s “most profoundly dialectical”[1] tendencies hold the viewer’s [...] Read More
Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-Century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune (Northern Lights)
Wayne Franits’s second monograph on Godefridus Schalcken (1643-1706) reads as an ardent love letter to the late seventeenth-century Dutch artist. A meticulous analysis of a selection of paintings from [...] Read More