Benito Navarrete Prieto’s book ‘Murillo: Persuasion and Aura‘ is awarded with the 2022 Eleanor Tufts Award of the Society for Iberian Global Art. This book examines how Murillo constructed his paintings and the devices he employed to provoke responses in the viewer, both then and now. Murillo has attracted particular attention from historians since the…
Harvey Miller Catalogue – New Titles (2021-2022)
The 2021-22 issue of our Harvey Miller Catalogue is now available Discover our newest & forthcoming Harvey Miller titles in the field of Medieval & Early Modern Art History, Sculpture Studies, Cultural History, Art Theory, Architectural History, Drawings, Manuscript Studies,…. including studies on Andrea Mantegna, Rubens, Leonardo da Vinci, Dante, Raphael, Taddeo Di Bartolo, Murillo,…
Matthew Collins on “Reading Dante with Images: A Visual Lectura Dantis”
A Contribution by: Matthew Collins holds a PhD from Harvard University’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His 2018 dissertation was on the early printed illustrations of Dante’s Commedia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He has taught at Harvard and at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Scuola…
Video: Digital Book Presentation: Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XX, 2, Study Heads
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XX, 2 Study Heads By Nico Van Hout More Info This book is devoted to a remarkable aspect of Rubens’s painted production. It investigates and catalogues not only works that Ludwig Burchard (1886–1960) gathered into the category of ‘Study Heads’, but also head studies by artists closely connected to Rubens’s…
Michael Cole on “Andrea Mantegna: Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images” by Stephen J. Campbell
A contribution by: Michael Cole Columbia University “This is a book of formidable learning, close observation and long reflection, by one of the great living authorities on late Quattrocento painting. It stands out from the rest of the Mantegna literature in the way it situates the artist within the intellectual world of Padua and Mantua,…
Herbert L. Kessler, Shira Brisman, Davide Stimilli, and Angelos Chaniotis on “From Kairos to Occasio through Fortuna. Text / Image / Afterlife” by Barbara Baert
Herbert L. Kessler Professor Emeritus, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore “As the title itself indicates, Barbara Baert’s From Kairos to Occasio through Fortuna moves. Beginning with the Mantuan grisaille painting of Occasio and Poenitentia in Andrea Mantegna’s style, which Aby Warburg included in his seminal Mnemosyne Atlas, the analysis transgresses the limits of…