摘要：JHNA is pleased to publish three articles on fifteenth- and seventeenth-century art produced in a variety of different media. The first, by Sally Whitman Coleman, discusses an early panoramic landscape painting, “Hans Memling’s Scenes from the Advent and Triumph of Christ” in Munich, a Simultanbild that has perplexed art historians for many years. Coleman argues that the key to understanding Memling’s narrative structure lies in a consideration of major Church festivals over the year. The second by Matthijs Ilsink and Monica Marchesi, “A needlework by Philips van den Bossche, (fl. 1604–1615),” focuses on an artist who worked as court embroiderer to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Published here for the first time is the single needle work securely attributed to van den Bossche, a wooded landscape with a Rest on the Flight into Egypt. The discovery of this “needle painting” gives insight into the nature of Van den Bossche’s embroidered oeuvre. In the third, “Possessing Brazil in Print, 1630–54,” Elizabeth Sutton analyzes the maps of Brazil published during the tenure of the Dutch Republic’s possession of the territory (1630–54), many of which share common featuresdemonstrating how existing conventions in rhetoric and iconography were used by publishers to convey Dutch ownership.
