Joanna Woodall
Anthonis Mor: Art and Authority
Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History.
Zwolle, Netherlands:
Waanders,
2006.
512 pp.; 176 b/w ills.
Cloth
€85.00
(9789040084218)
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Perhaps most famous in art history as Antonio Moro, a name he assumed while portraitist for the Spanish court of King Philip II, Anthonis Mor enjoyed a long career in the Netherlands, chiefly around his native Utrecht. In this extensive analytical study, Joanna Woodall restores to the painter his full career, including a serious output of religious subjects. Indeed, Woodall’s perceptive characterizations sometimes seem colored by a portentous wish to convey the ultimate seriousness and...