Shira Brisman begins what is likely to become an important text for both the history of art and material culture studies with a declaration of what the book is not: “This is not a book about how [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Painter to the Queen: Michel Sittow, Courtier to Isabella of Castile and the Habsburg Dynasty (Courts and Courtiers in a Global Context, Vol. 2)
Oskar Rojewski has made an important contribution to the study of the Tallinn (Reval)-born painter Michel Sittow (1468/1469-1525), who enjoyed an extraordinary career at the courts of Renaissance [...] Read More
The World of Gerard van Honthorst
Liesbeth Helmus’s ambitious monograph on the canonical but often underestimated Dutch painter Gerard van Honthorst will surely be the new touchstone for studies of the artist. Published earlier this [...] Read More
Rubens’s Questions: Religion, Paragone, and the Ontology of Painting,
Rubens’s Questions: Religion, Paragone, and the Ontology of Painting, is arguably one of the most intellectually engaging contributions to the literature on the artist published in recent years. [...] Read More
Johannes van Bronchorst (1627–1656): Naturalism and Classicism in the Dutch Golden Age
Tommaso Borgogelli’s new study of the art of Johannes van Bronchorst is the first comprehensive analysis of this artist’s oeuvre since the appearance of Thomas Döring’s indispensible monograph of [...] Read More
Willem de Rooij – Dirk Valkenburg: A Critical Analysis of Visual Culture in the Early Modern Netherlands
This volume appeared as a pendant to Willem de Rooij’s solo exhibition Valkenburg, on view at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, September 13, 2025 – January 25, 2026. It sets out to achieve ambitious and [...] Read More