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…
‘Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France’ wins the 2020 ICMA Annual Book Prize
‘Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France. The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie of Brabant (1260-1321)‘ by Tracy Chapman Hamilton has been awarded with the 2020 Annual Book Prize of the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA). “Tracy Chapman Hamilton presents an intellectually rich recuperation of an understudied Gothic patron, refined aesthete, and politically…
Eric Fernie and Susannah Heschel on “The Politics of Sanctity. Figurative Sculpture at Selles-sur-Cher”
A contribution by Eric Fernie CBE FRSE FBA FSA Director of the Courtauld Institute from 1995 to 2003 President of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2004 to 2007 “The dating of Romanesque sculpture by style can be a fraught undertaking. The quality of Kahn’s scholarship is clearly indicated by her completely convincing re-dating…
Philippe Cordez on “Typical Venice? The Art of Commodities, 13th–16th Centuries”
A contribution by Philippe Cordez The German Center for Art History – DFK Paris The idea of studying the Venetian art of commodities came to me in spring 2013, while spending a few days in Venice at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani – and more specifically, in its library. In thinking about art historical…