Bøger i Brill's Studies on Art, Art Hi serien

Jacob Campo Weyerman was the author and editor of a satirical weekly, of which two volumes are analysed here. They are a primary source on the customs and manners of urbanised Western Europe, especially Holland, in the early eighteenth century.

By clothing the Word with her flesh, the Virgin Mary made God visible, thereby licensing image-making. These case studies demonstrate how representations of Mary defined her role in the salvation of humanity and shaped early modern Christian beliefs and practices.

A biography of American painter Ralph W. Curtis (1854-1922) who graduated at Harvard, studied art in Paris, exhibited in the salons in Paris. He met Robert Browning, Henry James, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Venetian painters at the Palazzo Barbaro, in Venice.

Dramatic changes during the Reformation era in Northern Europe, such as witchcraft and new global discoveries, are examined through visual culture, both prints and paintings.