A Contribution by Herbert L. Kessler   Why were crocodiles suspended from medieval church vaults? What do diverse versions of the legends of Christ’s foreskin reveal about twelfth-century eucharistic debates? Does a common thread tie together the many instances of donations of chess piece to churches? Treasure, Memory, Nature answers these and myriad other…

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…

The Book Prize Committee of The Historians of British Art is pleased to announce that “Africans in English Caricature 1769–1819: Black Jokes, White Humour” by Temi Odumosu has won the 2019 award for a single-authored book with a subject between 1600-1800. The book cleverly explores how and why satirical artists both mocked and utilized Africans as…

“The History of Venetian Renaissance Sculpture, ca. 1400–1530” by Anne Markham Schulz was named BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 by Apollo, The International Art Magazine. “Markham Schulz takes us back to the roots of art history and the importance of looking. And she enables the reader to do the same. Through what must have been…

A contribution by Prof. Genevieve Warwick History of Art, University of Edinburgh Alexandra Hoare’s book is an impressive piece of scholarship that, together with her translation of Rosa’s letters and extensive illustrations of his work, will be a standard reference text for any further research on this important artist. Hoare deftly unpacks the distinctive manner…