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July 29, 2008
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...