The annual issue of The Burlington Magazine dedicated to Northern European art appeared.
Close analysis of inventories establishes that Jan Van Eyck’s exquisite Virgin in the church (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) formed the left wing of a diptych made for Duke Philip the Good. Sixteenth-century studies feature a rediscovered page from an important tournament book, which prompts an analysis of the chivalric tradition of jousting. Also included is an article that identifies Sibylla von Freyberg as the patron of a richly illuminated German prayer book in the British Library, London. In addition, the subject and artist of an intriguing Portrait of a Lady at Parham House, Sussex, are confirmed, following technical and stylistic analysis. Meanwhile, seventeenth-century research includes the correct naming of two sitters in pendant portraits by Frans Hals in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. This sheds fresh light on the question of whether Hals and Rembrandt worked side-by-side.
Among the reviewed exhibitions is a show on the 1st Duke of Wellington’s and his taste for Dutch painting and Feminist chinoiserie. Books scrutinized include major collection catalogues of German paintings at the National Gallery in London, of Netherlandish paintings at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, and of medals in the Bargello, Florence. A monograph on Lucas Cranach is also discussed.
Contents
Articles
Jan van Eyck’s diptych for Philip the Good
Emma Capron
A Saxon in Hamburg: a leaf from the lost tournament book of Duke John the Steadfast
Alexandra Burger
Sibylla von Freyberg’s prayer book
Clarck Drieshen
Putting a name to a face: ‘Portrait of a lady’ at Parham House
Bianca Arthur-Hull, Elise Effmann Clifford, Elizabeth Goldring, Sakeenah Teal Montanaro
Frans Hals’s portraits of Jan van de Poll and Duijfje van Gerwen: new identifications
Jonathan Bikker
A ‘Salvator Mundi’ at Dulwich reconsidered
Lucy West, Nicole Ryder
A ‘Flagellation of Christ’ in Zagreb from Dirck Santvoort’s Passion series
Ivan Ferenčak
Germany’s celebration of Caspar David Friedrich’s 250th anniversary
Christian Scholl
The July issue is now available in digital and print version. For full content and ordering information, visit The Burlington’s website.