In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and
cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred …

Iconographic analysis of The Mérode Annunciation has traditionally ignored how the
medieval mind forged chains of memory prompts to expand meditation. Even the recent …

Painted cityscapes have always captivated the viewers of medieval works of art. To this day
scholars are mesmerised by their capacity to mirror the urban context from which they …

Fig. I. 1 Ambrogio de Predis (ca. 1455–after 1508). Bianca Maria Sforza, probably 1493. Oil
on panel, 51× 32.5 cm. Photo© The National Gallery of Art, Washington (1942.9. 53). Fig. I. 2 …

Late-medieval devotional literature embraced visualization as a means of providing the
reader-devotee with the experience of being a virtual witness during a text-guided …

This paper examines a dynamic tendency discernible in late medieval devotional images,
especially the portrayal of the Man of Sorrows by Netherlandish and south German artists …

The aim of this essay is to survey debates about early Netherlandish paintings as devotional
objects from roughly the late 1980s to about 2020. During this period, an important shift in …

A social history of the fifteenth-century German painter's influence. Emigrating from southern
Germany in the late fifteenth century, painter Hans Memling sought success in the vibrant …

Through a series of case studies, this paper examines Flemish fifteenth and early sixteenth
century paintings of the Annunciation in a domestic setting as an example of how the …

Johan Huizinga's much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first
published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant …