Denkende Körper, Formende Hände: Handeling in Kunst und Kunsttheorie der Rembrandtisten. Yannis Hadjinicolaou. Actus et Imago 18. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. viii + 406 pp. $112.
perience for experience” (280). Bruegel exhibits a Neo-Stoic detachment consistent with the humanism of Abraham Ortelius and other friends in Antwerp. Whether hovering above a landscape or with our feet on the ground at a kermis, the viewer is in the present tense watching events occur. The world may be indifferent to human events, as even the Magi’s adoration of Christ is obscured by a snowstorm; however, Bruegel says “behold” and then makes us believe what we see. Chapter 11 on the Winter Landscape with Bird Trap is a masterpiece of creative viewing. This is a book about these twomasters and not a survey from Bosch to Bruegel. In this quite personal study, Joseph Koerner offers a myriad of new perspectives and insights about works of art that we thought we knew so well. Regardless of whether the reader always agrees, one feels enriched and appreciative of the journey through the very different worlds of these two Netherlandish artists.