According to most modern scholarship, it was during his time in Italy that Honthorst earned the nickname “Gherardo delle Notti,” or “Gerrit of the nights,” because of his talent for rendering dramatic nighttime images… The attentive reader will notice, however, that none of these texts credit the nickname to a contemporary source. When did Honth…[Read more]

An interview with three American historians of art on the the past, present, and future of digital art history.

The development of a professionalized, highly centralized printmaking industry in northern Europe during the mid-sixteenth century has been argued to be the inevitable result of prints’ efficacy at reproducing images, and thus encouraging mass production. However, it is unclear whether such a centralized structure was truly inevitable, and if it…[Read more]