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July 2025

Vol. 167 | No. 1468

Art of Northern Europe

Editorial

The gallery of honour

The gallery of honour in the heart of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, has recently welcomed an impressive painting to its walls: Vanitas still life by Maria van Oosterwijck (1630–93). In a compelling sense the artist has long had a place in galleries of honour, as works by her were acquired by Emperor Leopold I, Louis XIV of France and Cosimo III de’ Medici of Tuscany.

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Exhibition Review

D’or et d’éclat: Le bijou à la Renaissance

To mark the 30th anniversary of its opening in the Hôtel d’Assézat, Toulouse, the Fondation Bemberg is celebrating with a dazzling exhibition dedicated to Renaissance jewellery – the first on the subject since Princely Magnificence: Court Jewels of the Renaissance, 1500–1630 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (V&A), in 1980–81.

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  • Philip the Good attending mass,

    Jan van Eyck’s diptych for Philip the Good

    By Emma Capron
  • Fragment from the tournament book of Duke John of Saxony

    A Saxon in Hamburg: a leaf from the lost tournament book of Duke John the Steadfast

    By Alexandra Burger
  • Nikolaus Bertschi with his wife Margarete, from the Lorcher Graduale

    Sibylla von Freyberg’s prayer book

    By Clarck Drieshen
  • Detail of Fig.1

    Putting a name to a face: ‘Portrait of a lady’ at Parham House

    By Bianca Arthur-Hull,Elise Effmann Clifford,Elizabeth Goldring,Sakeenah Teal Montanaro
  • Jan van de Poll

    Frans Hals’s portraits of Jan van de Poll and Duijfje van Gerwen: new identifications

    By Jonathan Bikker
  • IRR of Fig.3. (© Tager Stonor Richardson, 2024).

    A ‘Salvator Mundi’ at Dulwich reconsidered

    By Lucy West,Nicole Ryder
  • Christ before the High Priest

    A ‘Flagellation of Christ’ in Zagreb from Dirck Santvoort’s Passion series

    By Ivan Ferenčak
  • Woman at the window

    Germany’s celebration of Caspar David Friedrich’s 250th anniversary

    By Christian Scholl