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” was named Apollo’s BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
“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…
Genevieve Warwick on Alexandra Hoare’s forthcoming books on Salvator Rosa
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…
‘Editio princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible’ wins SHARP’s DeLong Book History Prize 2018
Editio princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible by Eric White (Princeton University Library) wins the DeLong Book History Prize 2018, awarded by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). SHARP annually awards the prize to the ‘author of the best book on any aspect of the creation, dissemination or uses…
Harvey Miller Catalogue – Spring & Summer 2018
The catalogue for Harvey Miller on new and forthcoming titles scheduled to appear in Spring & Summer 2018 is now available. Download your copy here.
Sandra Hindman on ‘The Medieval World at our Fingertips’
A contribution by Sandra Hindman President and Founder, Les Enluminures & Professor Emerita, Department of Art History, Northwestern University The Medieval World at our Fingertips. Manuscript Illuminations from the Collection of Sandra Hindman Designed to accompany the special exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago of a selection of about thirty illuminated manuscript leaves from…
The Value of Taste. Auction Prices and the Evolution of Taste in Dutch and Flemish Golden Age Painting (1642–2011)
The Value of Taste Auction Prices and the Evolution of Taste in Dutch and Flemish Golden Age Painting (1642–2011) By Peter Carpreau Taste is a well known but largely underestimated phenomenon. Yet it is one of the factors that has shaped our knowledge and view of art. Why is Rembrandt van Rijn today considered to be…
Paul Needham on ‘Editio princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible’
A contribution by Paul Needham Scheide Librarian, Princeton University Library Editio princeps is a history of the Gutenberg Bible that provides an account, both detailed and highly readable, of the fates and vicissitudes of all surviving copies, including those attested only by fragments from bookbindings. There is not a copy for which Dr. White’s researches…
Andria Derstine on ‘The Journal of a Transatlantic Art Dealer: René Gimpel (1918-1939)’
A contribution by Dr. Andria Derstine John G. W. Cowles Director Allen Memorial Art Museum Oberlin College The Journal of a Transatlantic Art Dealer René Gimpel (1918-1939) In The Journal of a Transatlantic Art Dealer, René Gimpel 1918-1939, Diana J. Kostyrko traces the life and work of René Gimpel, his social milieu, and the patterns…
‘Colossi that Move’ by Estelle Lingo
A contribution by Estelle Lingo Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2016-18 Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Associate Professor of Early Modern European Art Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor University of Washington, Seattle Colossi that Move The majority of the sculptures of Francesco Mochi (1580-1654) are colossi, a…
Pamela Patton on the “Index of Medieval Art”at 100
A contribution by Pamela Patton Director of the Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University The Index at 100 The 2016 retirement of Adelaide Bennett Hagens, a much-beloved manuscript scholar whose expertise enriched the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University for fifty years, coincided closely with the 100th anniversary of the archive’s 1917 founding as the…
Elizabeth Cropper on Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s ‘Felsina pittrice’
A contribution by Elizabeth Cropper Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Life of Marcantonio Raimondi and Critical Catalogue of Prints by or after Bolognese Masters Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s Felsina pittrice (Bologna, 1678) is a challenging and rich text. From the very beginning our plan has been…