One Article, Four Notes and a Review in the June 2026 issue of Print Quarterly may be of interest to CODART members for their material relating to Dutch and Flemish artists.
Victoria Fernandez’s Article examines the Louvre’s conservation campaign since 2016 to conserve and remount the roughly 35,000 prints and 865 drawings bequeathed by Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845–1934), with respect to the stipulations mentioned in the deed of gift. The author also illustrates many unique findings and observations, including reattributions.
Daan van Heesch’s Note reviewing Figures du Fou. Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques examines how and why the figure of the fool proliferated as a cultural motif in medieval and Renaissance Europe, up to the Romantic period. Early printmakers mentioned include Alart du Hameel (1450–1506), Lucas van Leyden (1494–1533) and Frans Hogenberg (1535–1590).
Elizabeth Savage’s Note on Woodcuts as Reading Guides: How Images Shaped Knowledge Transmission in Medical-Astrological Books in Dutch (1500–1550) discusses how woodcut images in books were able to convey extra information to their Netherlandish audiences, sometimes even to the point of being practical tools in themselves. In doing so, it attributes meaningful intent to the images beyond mere illustration.
Jun Nakamura’s Note on Careers by Design compares the careers of Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) and Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), particularly their use of printmaking as a tool for sharing their personal ‘brand’ and securing their artistic legacies, especially since Rubens did not himself engrave. As a result, it highlights how the apparatus of print publishing could be deployed as a tool for self-promotion.
Małgorzata Biłózor-Salwa’s Note on In Readers’ Hands discusses how early modern audiences interacted with Biblical texts across different geographical regions. Special focus is given to a unique album in the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven, which features numerous religious engravings cut out, arranged and collaged within its pages.
Finally, Nadine Orenstein’s Review on two publications about Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) commemorates the 450th anniversary of the artist’s death, which was marked by exhibitions in Germany and The Netherlands. The former specifically engaged with the Roman sketchbook in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett. Heemskerck’s engagement with printmaking was mainly through his collaborators in Haarlem like Dirk Volkertsz Coornhert (1522–1560), as well as the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock (1518–1570), and this enabled him to promote the Roman antique style in The Netherlands.
Contents
The States of Francesco Parmigianino’s Etchings: A New Catalogue by Catherine Jenkins
On Conserving and Remounting the Edmond de Rothschild Collection at the Louvre by Victoria Fernandez
Shorter Notice
Denmark’s Sea Trade: A Preparatory Drawing and Martin Tyroff’s Related Print by Karl-Georg Pfändtner
Notes
The Many Faces of the Fool (Figures fu Fou. Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques) by Daan van Heesch
Woodcuts and the Creation of Medical-Astronomical Knowledge in the Low Countries, 1500–50 (Woodcuts as Reading Guides) by Elizabeth Savage
Painters and Illuminators: Parisian Book Production of the Renaissance (Illustrer le livre. Peintres et enlumineurs dans l’édition parisienne de la Renaissance) by Valerie Auclair
Goltzius and Rubens Paired in Munich (Careers by Design: Hendrick Goltzius and Peter Paul Rubens) by Jun Nakamura
Printed Images as a Vehicle for Theological Comments on the Bible (In Readers’ Hands: New Perspectives on Premodern Bibles in Europe) by Małgorzata Biłózor-Salwa
Louis Chéron (L’ambition du dessin parfait) by Richard Stephens
William Blake (1757–1827) at Yale by Esther Chadwick
Italian Playing Cards and Games from the Crippa Collection (L’arte del gioco. Giochi antichi dalla Collezione Crippa della Raccolta Bertarelli di Milano) by Thierry Depaulis
Hokusai’s Method by Ellis Tinios
Herry Perry: Artist and Illustrator by Mia Nathan
How Comics are Made by Matthias Wivel
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) (Fragments: Ian Hamilton Finlay) by Gill Saunders
Publications Received
Catalogue and Book Reviews
Maarten van Heemskerck by Nadine M. Orenstein
Parisian Almanacs from the Reign of Louis XIV (Louis le Grand, la terreur et l’admiration de l’univers) by Louis Marchesano
The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain by Tim Clayton
François Chifflart’s Fortunes Rehabilitated by Evanghelia Stead
Diane Victor’s Prints by Jean Michel Massing
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