A contribution by Guido Rebecchini The Courtauld Institute of Art The subject of this book began to materialize as soon as I moved away from the streets and squares of Rome where I had grown up, first to Florence, then Los Angeles, Mantua and, finally, to London. Each of these cities, large and small, underscored…

A contribution by Tim Shephard University of Sheffield Sister Arts? Leonardo famously claimed that “Music is to be called none other than the sister of painting.” His assertion fits well with the Renaissance epistemology of the arts, personified as women and placed into sibling relationships as Liberal Arts or Muses. In such a system, the…

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XIII.2 Subjects from History: The Decius Mus Series By Reinhold Baumstark and Guy Delmarcel Rubens’s Decius Mus Cycle is in many ways a first. It provides the earliest example of work for the medium of tapestry, and so illustrates the artist’s approach to the challenges presented by a narrative sequence…

Celebrating 20 years Harvey Miller Publishers as a Brepols imprint of authority and quality for books on the history of art and culture, this new catalogue gives an overview of all Harvey Miller titles published over the past decade (2010-2020). It covers different domains ranging from Painting, Art Theory, History of Collecting & Cultural Studies,…

A contribution by Painting as a Modern Art in Early Renaissance Italy Art historians have often looked back on the Italian Renaissance as a signal moment for the emergence of modern art. In doing so, they evaluate the modernity of the period in conscious hindsight: the Renaissance is modern insofar as some aspect of their…

RENAISSANCE ILLUMINATORS IN PARIS Artists & Artisans 1500-1715 By Richard and Mary Rouse The commercial manuscript book-trade in Paris, that had begun as early as the mid-12th century, was severely disrupted by the arrival of the first printing presses in Paris around 1475. This new invention converted a traditional system of book production that had…

A contribution by Stefania Mason A native Venetian, Stefania Mason formerly taught Art History at the University of Udine (Italy) where she was coordinator for two programs, the dottorato di ricerca and the specializzazione in storia dell’arte. Her own scholarly work focuses principally on Venetian painting and drawing, on the relationship between art, devotion, and…

NOW AVAILABLE   Cesare Malvasia’s Felsina pittrice, or Lives of the Bolognese Painters, Vol. IX Life of Guido Reni Edited by Elizabeth Cropper and Lorenzo Pericolo Celebrated by Malvasia as the creator and promoter of the new maniera moderna, Guido Reni (1575–1642) introduces the fourth age of painting: a period marked by an original and…

The catalogue for Harvey Miller on new and forthcoming titles scheduled to appear in Spring & Summer 2019 is now available. Download your copy here.

The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Part II Architecture, Topography and Military Maps The dal Pozzo print collection was unique in its scope and organisation. Some 3,000 prints are known, in fourteen albums and many loose impressions mainly divided between the British Library and the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Acquired from the flourishing…