Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
Feted and endlessly scrutinised, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has a peculiar status. Paying homage to the painting as a talisman of Renaissance culture and a link to the mind of the man who created it, millions visit the Musée du Louvre in Paris every year and trudge through its galleries to get not very close to the picture and often be very disappointed.
Few sixteenth-century Netherlandish artists have received more sustained scholarly attention in recent decades than Maarten van Heemskerck (1498– 1574). Ilja Veldman’s pioneering research from the 1970s and the 1980s has elucidated the complex iconographies that Heemskerck created for his prints, while Rainald Grosshans and Jefferson Cabell Harrison have surveyed the artist’s extensive painted oeuvre.
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