Today, when a whale of any kind (what Ryan Gregg often calls “cetaceous units”) gets stranded on a beach, support is mobilized to keep the animal hydrated and to prepare the creature for return to the [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Les précurseurs flamands: Rogier Van der Weyden et les frères Van Eyck au prisme de la perspective
While art history has long been anchored in the “Italian myth” – crediting Brunelleschi with the empirical invention of linear perspective around 1413 and Alberti with its formal theorization in 1435 [...] Read More
Rubens. Mythological Subjects: Paris to Venus (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XI, 3)
The publication of this two-volume study of Rubens’s works inspired by classical mythology is the final installment in the three-part series on this subject within the catalogue raisonné of his work, [...] Read More
Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages
Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages, edited by Melanie Holcomb and Nancy Thebaut, was designed to accompany an exhibition of the same title at The Cloisters in New York. [...] Read More
Der amputierte Herrscher: Ein niederländisches Porträt des Sultans von Tidore
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
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