Frans Floris de Vriendt radically transformed Netherlandish art. His monumental mythologies introduced a new appreciation for the heroic nude to the Low Countri

"A crucial aim of the present study is to consider how Floris, an artist of international renown in his own day, could see his fortunes reversed and end up marg

Among the earliest written texts on the history and theory of Netherlandish art, these two key writings are now available together in an English translation. �

Barbara Kaminska’s Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Religious Art for the Urban Community is the first book-length study focusing on religious paintings by one of th

A deft reinterpretation of the most zealously interpreted picture in the Western canon as a therapeutic artifact. Albrecht Dürer's famous portrayal of creative