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Exposition : “The Mystery of the Girl in Blue”, Haarlem, Musée Frans Hals, du 12 mars au 11 octobre 2026

Portrait of a Girl Dressed in Blue (1641) by Johannes Verspronck is coming to the Frans Hals Museum! This public favourite from the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam will not be alone: the two portraits of her parents from the Rijksmuseum Twenthe will also be on display. This is the first time since 1979 that the family has been reunited in Haarlem, the city where the three portraits were painted. But who exactly are they? And...

Parution : Philippe Lorentz, Astrid Castres et Rose-Marie Ferré (dir.), “Regards sur la Broderie en Occident au Moyen Âge – Production, création et usages, XIIe–XVIe siècle”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

Ce livre pluridisciplinaire vise à faire connaître un art médiéval oublié : la broderie, appelée aussi peinture à l’aiguille. Ce volume est le recueil des actes de deux journées d’étude qui se sont tenues à Paris (INHA) en janvier 2020, parallèlement à l’exposition du musée de Cluny L’art en broderie au Moyen Âge. La rencontre visait à engager une discussion entre des spécialistes venus de différents pays (Allemagne, Angleterre, Espagne, États-Unis, France et Suisse) afin d’évaluer...

Parution : Graham R. Lea, “Silent Eloquence – The Rhetorical Pictures of Biblical History by Hendrick Goltzius and Pieter Lastman”, Leyde, Brill, 2026

Focusing on how Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) and Pieter Lastman (1583–1633) assimilated local rhetorical dramaturgy and performance practices found in the work of local rhetoricians (rederijkers), this book examines four examples of biblical history visualized in paintings by Goltzius and/or Lastman and analyses these paintings in comparison to stage texts written for the local chambers of rhetoric and which dramatize the same biblical narratives. Lea argues that Goltzius and Lastman each displayed their powers of poetic...

Parution : Thibaut Rioult, “Illusionnisme et magie à la Renaissance – Savoirs techniques et représentations sociales de l’art du merveilleux”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

Première enquête d’envergure consacrée à la place centrale de l’illusionnisme dans la société et la pensée renaissantes, cet ouvrage comble une lacune majeure en révélant le rôle décisif de ces pratiques spectaculaires dans la formation de l’Europe moderne, à la croisée de la science, de l’art, de la magie, de la religion et des divertissements. Et si les tours de magie avaient transformé notre vision du monde ? Cet ouvrage propose la première étude panoramique de...

Parution : Marieke J.E. van den Doel et Maria Fiammetta Iovine (dir.), “Visual Humanism – Collaborations between Artists and Humanists (1450-1650)”, Leyde, Brill, 2026

Renaissance artists and humanists worked closely together on artistic projects that promoted the revival of antiquity and restored the pagan gods to their former glory. Artists often took on the role of ‘visual humanist’ themselves. This book examines the role of artists in various collaborations and addresses the question: was the revival of the pagan gods an artistic game or a religious practice? It thus provides new insights into a much-researched debate. Marieke van den...

Parution : Thor-Oona Pignarre-Altermatt, “The Annunciation in Mary’s Chamber Art, Intimacy, and Devotion in the Low Countries (15th – Early 16th Centuries)”, Leyde, Brill, 2026

The Annunciation in Mary’s Chamber explores the domestic iconography of early Netherlandish Annunciation paintings in the context of domestic devotion. Drawing on a vast array of archival documents, catechetical manuals, and close visual analyses, Thor-Oona Pignarre-Altermatt argues that domestic devotional practices provided the framework for an intimate spirituality based on the use of books, images and objects during daily prayer. While Annunciation paintings have primarily prompted symbolic interpretations, this richly illustrated, methodologically innovative book reinterprets them...

Parution : Justine Walden, “The Sacred and the Secular in Renaissance Florence – Vallombrosan Exorcisms and the Rise of Observant Mendicancy”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

This study of the forces which impelled a group of Florentine monks to perform exorcisms opens a window onto fifteenth-century religious practice, the entanglements of politics and religion, and a decisive shift in religious and political life. Seeking to heal people possessed by demons, stave off Lorenzo de’ Medici’s predations, and compete with the meteoric rise of Observant Mendicants — Franciscans and Dominicans — monks known as Vallombrosans performed multiple exorcisms in Florence and its...

Parution : Walter S. Melion et Michael Zell (dir.), “The Affective and Hermeneutic Functions of the Mindful Picture, 1500–1700”, Leyde, Brill, 2026

The Affective and Hermeneutic Functions of the Mindful Picture examines paintings, drawings, and prints that use various representational contrivances to call attention to their status as pictorial images, in ways calculated both to stir the emotions and to incite interpretation. The books consists of five sections: “Materials, Artifice, and Agencies of the Hand” examines images in which the saliency of medium and manufacture mediate the conveyance of affect and meaning; “Thinking and Picturing” focuses on images...

Parution : Rozanne Versendaal, “Le mandement joyeux et la culture joyeuse en France et dans les anciens Pays-Bas (XVe-XVIIe siècles)”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

Ce livre apporte essentiellement une nouvelle interprétation des pratiques joyeuses et parodiques à travers l’étude d’une source littéraire, le mandement joyeux, dans une période de grands changements sociaux, politiques et religieux en France et dans les anciens Pays-Bas aux XVe-XVIIe siècles. Les XVe-XVIe siècles se caractérisent d’un épanouissement de la culture festive en France et dans les anciens Pays-Bas. Cette culture festive ou joyeuse, encore souvent étudiée sous l’angle politique des mécanismes de confrontation entre...

Parution : Steven J. Cody et Tiffany Lynn Hunt (dir.), “The Mannerist Altarpiece – Painting and Religious Experience in Sixteenth-Century Italy”, Leyde, Brill, 2026

Formally elegant, stylistically refined, rarefied in their display of knowledge and skill, Mannerist altarpieces are endlessly fascinating. Whereas previous scholarship aligns Mannerism with the world of secular concerns, the authors included in this volume chart a different course of interpretation. According to our argument, Mannerist altarpieces offer spectators a type of religious experience so stylized, so exquisitely beautiful that it becomes a work of art itself. In this respect, The Mannerist Altarpiece raises new possibilities for thinking...