Erudite Eyes explores how friendship between artists and humanists in the network of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) produced an antiquarian culture that yielded new knowledge on local antiquities and di
In Moving Sculptures Lipinska explores the little-known phenomenon of serial production of small-scale alabaster sculpture in the Southern Netherlands of the 16th and 17th centuries from the perspecti
In Pious Memories Douglas Brine examines the context, function, and meaning of early Netherlandish memorials (in the form of sculptures, paintings, and brasses), and the role they played in commemorat
How did the classical tradition survive on the North Sea shores? This book explores the writings of Franciscus Junius that paired scholarship to painter’s practice in the seventeenth century. They ill
'Painting contains a divine force which not only makes the absent present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.' Taking up Alberti's connection between divine po
