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22/11/2024

New in Open Access: Velázquez, Painter & Curator, by Julia Vázquez (Max Planck Institute for Art History).

This richly illustrated book is the first to address the curatorial career of Diego Velázquez, painter to King Philip IV of Spain and chamberlain of his royal palace. It investigates the role that Velázquez played in overseeing the display of the Habsburg art collection, then the richest in the western world, and the role, in turn, that this practice played in his creative trajectory between his arrival at the Spanish court in 1623 and his death in 1660.

Download this book now at https://brill.com/display/title/69619.

20/11/2024

Looking for Christmas gifts? 🎄 We might have just the right thing for you - books! 😉

❄ Get a head start on your holiday shopping! Treat yourself or impress the brainiac in your life with some choice titles from De Gruyter, Brill and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht – all while saving 30% until Christmas.

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20/11/2024

Edited by Denis Ribouillault (University of Montreal) and featuring 125 color illustrations, “Gardens and Academies in Early Modern Italy and Beyond” explores the role of gardens in early modern academies and, conversely, the place of what might be called 'academic culture' in early modern gardens.

https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/62485

05/11/2024

A new volume of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art is always a cause for celebration, even more so when it foregrounds women in art. Simply called “Women”, volume 74 of the Yearbook focuses on female roles in the art and society of the Netherlands. Edited by Elizabeth Alice Honig, Judith Noorman and Thijs Weststeijn, this beautifully produced book is dedicated to “all the women who have paved the way, opened doors, and were overlooked in the process.”

https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/71009

29/10/2024

Muqarnas, the first journal in English dedicated solely to the history of Islamic art and architecture, celebrates the publication of its 40th volume in 2024. Up to this day, Muqarnas and the Muqarnas Supplements remain a vibrant platform that facilitates discussions among art scholars. It covers Islamic art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary.

Check our special anniverary page to read the introduction by Editor-in-Chief Gülru Necipoğlu: https://brill.ws/muq40_

The online version version of Volume 40 is out now here: https://brill.ws/muqj_
Stay tuned for the print version, coming end of November!

23/10/2024

This , we highlight the 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 2023 𝙍𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃. 𝘽𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮, Walter S. Melion and his English translation of Karel van Mander's "Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting".

Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the "Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst" was the first systematic treatise on schilderconst (the art of painting / picturing) to be published in Dutch (Haarlem: Paschier van Wes[t]busch, 1604). This English-language edition of the Grondt, accompanied by an introductory monograph and a full critical apparatus, provides unprecedented access to Van Mander’s crucially important art treatise. The book sheds light on key terms and critical categories such as schilder, manier, uyt zijn selven doen, welstandt, leven and gheest, and wel schilderen, and both exemplifies and explicates the author’s distinctive views on the complementary forms and functions of history and landscape.

Explore this open access book and dowload your personal copy:
👉 brill.com/display/title/61758

21/10/2024

*International Open Access Week starts now*

We’re excited to celebrate International Open Access Week 2024. This year's theme, "Community over Commercialization," highlights the importance of equitable access to research. Join us in advancing open scholarship and ensuring that knowledge serves the public good.
Take a look at our website and explore our full range of open access art history titles:
👉https://ow.ly/CEsp50TMthp

Stay tuned for more open access content from DeGruyter Brill this week!

16/10/2024

10/10/2024

A lot has changed since Brill was established in 1683 and De Gruyter was founded in 1749. One thing has remained the same throughout: our commitment to you, our authors and partners. As we turn the page on a new chapter in our illustrious history, we invite you to join us at the Frankfurt Book Fair to celebrate our first appearance as the all-new De Gruyter Brill. And we're dressing up for the occasion!

Raise a glass with us on October 16, at 5pm at our booth in Hall 4.0/D90. We've got something special in store for you.

If you can't come, follow along online! Keep an eye on our socials, your inbox and degruyterbrill.com on that day to be one of the first to get to know the new us.

Let's start a new chapter together!

10/10/2024

Hot of the press: the latest issue of Oud Holland, Journal for Art of the Low Countries.

https://brill.com/view/journals/oh/137/3/oh.137.issue-3.xml

04/10/2024

This month, we commemorate the 450th anniversary of the death of Haarlem painter Maarten van Heemskerck. In the cities of Haarlem and Alkmaar in the Netherlands, the first overview exhibition of this groundbreaking artist has just opened. To learn more about Van Heemskerck, especially his stunning drawings of Roman ruins, read Art Di Furia’s highly praised monograph, “Maarten van Heemskerck’s Rome: Antiquity, Memory, and the Cult of Ruins.”

https://brill.com/display/title/39039

26/09/2024

*𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦*
Vol. 137, 3 of "Oud Holland" is available online. This issue features articles about the ornamental cup of Veere, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek.
Available in open access is Bram de Klerck's essay about "Trading places with the traitor: Pieter Pourbus (c. 1523-1584) and sixteenth-century Last Supper iconography".

Check it out on our website 👉https://brill.ws/oud137-3

19/09/2024

What can you learn about the impact of war on archaeology and museums in past conflicts such as World War II? What was the role of state authorities in protecting antiquities in some European contexts?
"Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and World War II" assesses a variety of targeted, vital case studies providing genuine and fresh data (even unpublished pictures and archival records), such as the burial of artefacts in the National Museum of Athens basement, or a little-known military excavation in Milazzo (Sicily).

Find out more 👉

16/09/2024

*NEW*
Discover the fascinating history of house museums with this new volume, examining twelve unique institutions founded over the past two centuries across the globe.
What drives collectors to create independent museums rather than donate their collections? How do founders' original intentions shape these spaces over time?
Through a series of thought-provoking essays, the book researches the evolution of these museums, exploring how they adapt to stay relevant to diverse audiences while honoring their founders' legacies. This is for anyone interested in museum studies, cultural heritage, and the power of individual vision in shaping public spaces.

👉https://brill.ws/hcam-20

20/08/2024

Written not long before Vasari's famous “Lives of the Artists” (1550), the “Codex of the Anonimo Magliabechiano” offers an overview of art from Cimabue to Michelangelo. First published in the late nineteenth century, the Codex has triggered numerous questions, the main one being: who authored it? The editors of this richly illustrated new edition believe to have found the answer.

https://brill.com/display/title/64378

16/08/2024

* Podcast *
Faces of God
Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800

In a podcast with Raj Balkaran for New Books Network, Murad Khan Mumtaz discusses his latest book 'Faces of God'. In the book, he argues that Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South Asian Muslim audiences has remained hidden in plain view.

'Faces of God' situates manuscript illustrations and album paintings within cultures of devotion and ritual shaped by Islamic intellectual and religious histories. Central to this story are the Mughal siblings, Jahanara Begum and Dara Shikoh, and their Sufi guide Mulla Shah. Through detailed art historical analysis supported by new translations, this study contextualizes artworks made for Indo-Muslim patrons by putting them into direct dialogue with written testimonies.

Listen to the podcast here: http://brill.ws/ho2-39_
The book is available in Open Access here: http://brill.ws/ho239_

14/08/2024

Out now!

𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝘄𝗼

This publication, edited by Mayco A. Santaella, brings together current scholarship that focuses on the significance of heritage of royal in . The second volume, "Pusaka as Performed Heritage", comprises chapters that problematise royal court traditions in the present century with case studies that examine the viability, adaptability and contemporary contexts for coexisting administrative structures.

Learn more here ➡️ brill.ws/Santaella

05/08/2024

𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄! 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗶 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲: 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲 (𝗰. 𝟭𝟱𝟯𝟬-𝟭𝟲𝟵𝟬)

Early modern : Giulia Zanon sheds new light on our grasp of social and the possibilities for in pre-modern Italy. Researching a multitude of artistic and architectural artefacts, this work contextualizes the part played by social relationships and the arts in publicly affirming and displaying the prestige of the .

To the book: ➡️ brill.ws/Zanon