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Parution : Silvia Tita, “Legal Visuality. Exegesis, Ambiguity, and Dissimulation of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025

This study is the first to explore the reasons for the intriguing proliferation of the visual theme of the Donation of Constantine in the early modern period and the implications of the theme for the global politics of the papacy. The (in)famous Donation, a document forged in the eighth century, stipulated the endowment of the papacy with the entire “West” by the first Christian emperor Constantine the Great (306-37). Instead of looking at related visual...

Parution : Anna Maria Jonietz, “Die Selbstbildnissammlung Der Medici 1650-1723: Frühneuzeitliche Strategien Zur Auslotung Und Formung Von Evidenz”, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2025

The ‘Galleria degli Autoritratti’ in the Uffizi, Florence, is the largest collection of artists’ self-portraits in the world. It was founded in 1650 by Leopoldo de’ Medici, and his heir Cosimo III expanded and reorganized it. Assisted by a network of agents and guided by empirical research criteria, the two patrons acquired only genuine self-portraits. The outcome was a unique, special collection closely linked to the epistemological approaches of the 17th century. Anna Maria Jonietz...

Exposition : “The Ideal, the Real and the Grotesque”, Bruxelles, BOZAR, du 20 février au 14 juin 2026

Beauty and Ugliness are themes that resonate and fascinate in every era – universal concepts, yet their forms and tastes can culturally vary over time. How did the Renaissance thinkers conceive of these ideas? Art, through the power of the image, is the best way to discover them. The exhibition’s approach is unprecedented: it traces how the standards of Beauty and Ugliness evolved from the last quarter of the 15th century to the end of...

Parution : Tamar Cholcman, “Festival Emblems. A Paradox along the Triumphal Route”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025

In early modern culture, civic festivals and emblem books were amongst the more privileged genres of Early Modern culture. Although both are connected in their use of word and image, they are nonetheless separated in their very essence. The former, a public event celebrated usually at night and involving, alongside ephemeral monuments, lights, fireworks, music, ceremonies, and theater performances, was for the spectator an all-encompassing experience. It was intended to propagate either the ruler or...

Parution : Christine Kleiter, “‘L’Histoire de la nature des oyseaux’ von Pierre Belon: Naturhistorische Bild – und Sammlungspraxis der Frühen Neuzeit”, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2025

Pierre Belon’s treatise on birds, published in Paris in 1555, is regarded as a pioneering early work of ornithology. Christine Kleiter analyzes this work in its exceptional position as one of the first printed and illustrated natural history treatises. She shows how the text and images pursue the claim to systematically document and catalog knowledge. In doing so, she compares Belon’s work with that of other naturalists, such as Conrad Gessner and Ulisse Aldrovandi. It...

Exposition : “Caravaggio’s “Boy with a Basket of Fruit” in Focus”, New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, du 16 janvier au 19 avril 2026

This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome of the painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit, an important early work by Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571–1610). Trained in his native Lombardy, Caravaggio brought to Rome a tradition of naturalism that stretched back to Leonardo da Vinci’s work in Milan. He combined this tradition, however, with a revolutionary approach to painting that shattered the illusion of art and instead celebrated...

Parution : Marjan Debaene, Hannah De Moor (eds), “Borman in Context. Brabantine Sculpture from 1460–1540”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025

In September 2019, ten years of interdisciplinary research culminated in the first-ever monographic exhibition on the Borman family, titled Borman and Sons. The Best Sculptors (20.09.19–26.01.20) at M Leuven. The exhibition was accompanied by a new publication on the Borman family of Brussels sculptors, who were active from the second half of the fifteenth century into the second third of the sixteenth century. The 6th Annual Ards Colloquium, held at M Leuven in November 2019,...

Parution : Marina Formica, Donatella Strangio, “L’araba fenice. Crisi e resilienza nella Roma pontificia (1656-1870)”, Rome, Viella, 2025

Il volume analizza l’evoluzione della Roma papale dalla peste del 1656 fino al 1870, anno in cui divenne capitale del Regno d’Italia. Le autrici, attraverso l’uso di fonti originali, indagano le principali crisi che hanno attraversato la città, dai flagelli sanitari come la peste, il vaiolo e il colera, alle calamità ambientali legate al Tevere, alle carestie e alla gestione delle risorse naturali. Si esaminano anche le crisi politiche e quelle finanziarie, con il peso...

Parution : Robert Couzin, “Unrepresented: The Suppression of Images in the Middle Ages”, Leyde, Brill, 2025

The study of representational art traditionally focusses on what is represented rather than what is missing. Robert Couzin’s Unrepresented: The Suppression of Images in the Middle Ages is a unique study of figures and attributes left out of the picture. Why avoid depicting the dead body of Christ, Muhammad, the reigning emperor or biblical text? What explains changes in the approach to representing heretics and Jews?Through a series of case studies, this book shows how...

Parution : Beate Fricke, “Creation and Creativity in Medieval Art. Illustrating Genesis”, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2025

Creation imagery in manuscripts made in the Middle Ages became a locus for visual experimentation as well as the expression of ideas about creativity. By examining representations of divine creation and illustrations of the creation stories in Genesis, this book links medieval ideas about creation, the characteristic of the Divine Creator, and the act of creation with themes in medieval thought about the work of medieval artists. Case studies from manuscripts illuminating the creation dating...