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Dr. M. (Machtelt) Brüggen Israëls

Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Kunstgeschiedenis
Photographer: Bert Nienhuis

Visiting address
  • Turfdraagsterpad 15
Postal address
  • Postbus 94551
    1090 GN Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Publications

    Books

    With Carl Brandon Strehlke. The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti. Florence: Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Milan: Officina Libraria, 2015.

     

    Sassetta’s Madonna della Neve: An Image of Patronage. Leiden: Primavera Press, 2003.

     

    Edited volumes

    Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece, 2 vols. Florence: Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Leiden: Primavera Press, 2009.

     

    With Louis A. Waldman. Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, 2 vols. Florence: Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2013.

     

    Articles and essays

    “Mrs. Berenson, Mrs. Gardner, and Miss Toplady: Connoisseurship, Collecting, and Commerce in London (1899–1905)”, Visual Resources, special issue, Meaghan Clarke and Francesco Ventrella eds., forthcoming.

     

    With Joseph Connors. “Borromini in Siena”. The Burlington Magazine, CLVIII, 2016, pp. 702–14.

     

    “Franciscus in de vroege Italiaanse kunst”, in Frank Bosman, Kees van Dooren, Gerard Pieter Freeman et al. Franciscus van Assisi. Exh. cat. Utrecht, Catharijneconvent, 5 March – 5 June 2016. Utrecht: Catharijneconvent and Zwolle: WBooks, 2016, pp. 65–93.

     

    “The Berensons ‘Connosh’ and Collect Sienese Painting”, in Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls. The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti. Florence: Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Milan: Officina Libraria, 2015, pp. 46–69.

     

    “A Promise Long Kept: Rutilio Manetti for Lucrezia Ballati, 1538–1621”, in Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, ed. Machtelt Israëls and Louis A. Waldman. Florence: Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2013, vol. I, pp. 552–62, 936–38.

     

    “Piero della Francesca’s Panel Paintings for Borgo San Sepolcro”, in Piero della Francesca in America: From Sansepolcro to the East Coast. Exh. cat. New York, The Frick Collection, 12 February – 19 May 2013. New York: The Frick Collection, 2013, pp. 47–67.

     

    “Sculptured Painting in Early Renaissance Florence”, in La primavera del Rinascimento. La scultura e le arti a Firenze, 1400–1460, ed. Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Marc Bormand. Exh. cat. Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 21 March – 18 August 2013 and Paris, Musée du Louvre, 23 September – 6 January 2014. Florence: Mandragora, 2013.

     

    “Commissioni parallele e narrazioni insolite. Piero della Francesca ed il Sassetta a Borgo San Sepolcro”, in Ripensando Piero della Francesca. Il Polittico della Misericordia di Sansepolcro: storia, studi e indagini tecnico-scientifiche, ed. Mariangela Betti, Cecilia Frosinini, and Paola Refice. Florence: Edifir, 2012, pp. 99–116.

     

    “La decorazione pittorica dell’Antiporto di Camollia, di Porta Romana e di Porta Pispini a Siena”, in Fortificare con arte. Mura, porte e fortezze di Siena nella storia, ed. Ettore Pellegrini. Siena: Betti, 2012, pp. 200–219.

     

    “Lodovico di Luca pittore ornatista del primo Rinascimento senese”, in Sano di Pietro. Qualità, devozione e pratica nella pittura senese del Quattrocento, ed. Gabriele Fattorini, Alessandro Angelini, Annamaria Guiducci, and Wolfgang Loseries. Acts of the conference, Siena and Asciano, 5–6 December 2005. Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana, 2012, pp. 95–127.

     

    “Sodoma at Porta Pispini and the Pictorial Decoration of Sienese City Gates”, in Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena, ed. Judith B. Steinhoff and Timothy Smith. Burlington: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 195–220.

     

    “The Berensons, Photography, and the Discovery of Sassetta”, in Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History, ed. Costanza Caraffa. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011, pp. 157–68.

     

    “Sassetta and the Guglielmi Piccolomini Altarpiece in Siena”, The Burlington Magazine, CLII, 2010, pp. 162–71.

     

    “Painting for a Preacher: Sassetta and Bernardino da Siena”, in Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece, ed. Machtelt Israëls, 2 vols. Florence and Leiden: Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Primavera Press, 2009, vol. I, pp. 121–39.

     

    “Polyptychs without Painting: Sassetta, Piero della Francesca, and the Rejection of Unpainted Altarpieces”, in Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece, ed. Machtelt Israëls, 2 vols. Florence and Leiden: Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Primavera Press, 2009, vol. I, pp. 243–53.

     

    (Lead author) “The Reconstruction of Sassetta’s Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece”, in Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece, ed. Machtelt Israëls, 2 vols. Florence and Leiden: Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Primavera Press, 2009, vol. I, pp. 161–209.

     

    “Al cospetto della città. Sodoma a Porta Pispini e la tradizione pittorica delle porte urbiche di Siena”, in L’ultimo secolo della repubblica di Siena. Arti, cultura e società, ed. Mario Ascheri, Gianni Mazzoni, and Fabrizio Nevola. Acts of the conference, Siena 28–30 September 2003 and 16–18 September 2004. Siena: Accademia Senese degli Intronati, 2008, pp. 367–89.

     

    “An Angel at Huis Bergh: Clues to the Structure and Function of Duccio’s Maestà”, in Voyages of Discovery in the Collections of Huis Bergh, ed. Anneke de Vries. ’s Heerenberg: Stichting Huis Bergh, 2008, pp. 122–33, 175–80.

     

     “L’Assunzione del Sassetta e la fortuna rinascimentale del Trecento: un caso senese?”, in La Presenza del Passato: Political Ideas e modelli culturali nella storia e nell’arte senese. Acts of the conference, Siena, 4 and 5 May 2007. Siena: Cantagalli, 2008, pp. 225–38.

     

     “Absence and Resemblance: Early Images of Bernardino da Siena and the Issue of Portraiture (With a New Proposal for Sassetta)”, I Tatti Studies, XI, 2007, pp. 77–114.

     

    “Altars on the Street: The Wool Guild, the Carmelites and the Feast of Corpus Domini in Siena (1356–1456)”, Renaissance Studies, XX, 2006, pp. 180–200.

     

    “Un segno di alleanza. La Natività della Vergine del Maestro dell’Osservanza (1437–1439)”, in Capolavori ritrovati in terra di Siena. Itinerari d’autunno nei Musei Senesi, ed. Luciano Bellosi, Gabriele Fattorini, and Giulio Paolucci. Exh. cat. Musei Senesi 2005–2006. Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana, 2005, pp. 16–27.

     

    “Sassetta, Fra Angelico and their Patrons at S. Domenico, Cortona”, The Burlington Magazine, CXLV, 2003, pp. 760–76.

     

    “Sassetta’s Arte della Lana Altar-piece and the Cult of Corpus Domini in Siena”, The Burlington Magazine, CXLIII, 2001, pp. 532–43.

     

    “New Documents for Sassetta and Sano di Pietro at the Porta Romana, Siena”, The Burlington Magazine, CXL, 1998, pp. 436–44.

     

    Job en een muzikant en De terugkeer van de verloren zoon van Cornelis Matsys. Een transformatie natuurwetenschappelijk onderzocht”, Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, CLIII, 1995, pp. 113–34.

     

     

    Entries and forewords

    With Carl Brandon Strehlke, “Foreword”, in The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1887–1924: With Correspondence by Mary Berenson, ed. Rollin van N. Hadley. Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2016, pp. xi–xix.

     

    “Sano di Pietro: Madonna con Bambino e i santi Bernardino e Vincenzo Ferrer”, in Andrea De Marchi and Gabriele Fattorini eds. La collezione Salini: addenda pittura e scultura (secoli 14. – 16.). Florence: Magaza, 2015, pp. 86–93.

     

    On Benvenuto di Giovanni, Bartolomeo Bulgarini, Gentile da Fabriano, Girolamo di Benvenuto, Pietro Lorenzetti (attr.), Matteo di Giovanni, Lippo and Tederigo Memmi (attr.), Niccolò di Segna, Sano di Pietro, Sassetta, Ugolino di Nerio, and Gaetano Bianchi (Plates 10, 20, 21, 22, 38, 39, 46, 54, 65, 67, 69, 80, 91, 92, 93, 94, 101, 111; including biographies) in Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls. The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti. Florence: Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Milan: Officina Libraria, 2015.

     

    On Andrea del Castagno and Francesco d’Antonio (IV.10, VI.9.a-d, VII.9), in La primavera del Rinascimento. La scultura e le arti a Firenze, 1400–1460, ed. Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Marc Bormand. Exh. cat. Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 21 March – 18 August 2013 and Paris, Musée du Louvre, 23 September – 6 January 2014. Florence: Mandragora, 2013.

     

    On Sassetta and the Osservanza Master (B.3, C.17, C.18, C. 19, C.20, C.21, C.27, C.28, C.29, C.30, C.33), in Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello. Le arti a Siena nel primo Rinascimento, ed. Max Seidel et al. Exh. cat. Siena, Santa Maria della Scala, Opera della Metropolitana, Pinacoteca Nazionale, 26 March – 11 July 2010. Milan: Federico Motta, 2010, pp. 152–53, 222–31, 232–33, 234–35, 236–37, 238–39, 250–51, 252–53, 254–55, 256–57, 263–66.

  • Publications

    2024

    2023

    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2023). A Sartorial Portrait of Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda by Piero della Francesca. The Burlington Magazine, 165(1444), 720-737. [details]

    2022

    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2022). 5. Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi: Virgin and Child over Saints Helen, Dominic, Stephen (?), and a Dominican Nun, about 1330. In N. Silver (Ed.), Simone Martini in Orvieto (pp. 212-223). Yale University Press. [details]
    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2022). A Patron’s Painter: Simone Martini in Orvieto. In N. Silver (Ed.), Simone Martini in Orvieto (pp. 124-161). Yale University Press. [details]

    2021

    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2021). Il cardinal Casini committente di Masaccio e Masolino a Santa Maria Maggiore a Roma. In M. Caciorgna, & C. Gnoni Mavarelli (Eds.), Masaccio: Madonna del Solletico: l'eredità del cardinal Antonio Casini, principe senese della Chiesa (pp. 26-51). Sillabe. [details]

    2020

    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2020). Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist. (Renaissance Lives ). Reaktion Books. [details]

    2019

    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2019). The First Known Record of Piero della Francesca’s ‘Flagellation of Christ’ and the Question of its Inscription. The Burlington Magazine, 161(1395), 488-491. [details]
    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2019). The ‘sovrapporta’ of the studiolo in Urbino. The Burlington Magazine, 161(1398), 744-747. [details]

    2017

    2016

    2015

    • Strehlke, C. B., & Brüggen Israëls, M. (2015). The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti. Florence : Villa I Tatti in collaboration with Officina Libraria. [details]

    2013

    • Israëls, M. (2013). A Promise Long Kept: Rutilio Manetti for Lucrezia Ballati, 1538–1621. In M. Israëls, & L. A. Waldman (Eds.), Renaissance studies in honor of Joseph Connors. - Volume 1: Art history (pp. 552–562, 936–938). (Villa I Tatti; No. 29). The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. [details]
    • Israëls, M. (2013). Piero della Francesca’s Panel Paintings for Borgo San Sepolcro. In N. Silver (Ed.), Piero della Francesca in America: From Sansepolcro to the East Coast (pp. 47-67). Frick Collection.
    • Israëls, M. (2013). Sculptured Painting in Early Renaissance Florence. In B. Paolozzi Strozzi, & M. Bormand (Eds.), The Springtime of the Renaissance: Sculpture and the Arts in Florence 1400–60 (pp. 150-157). Paris: Musée du Louvre.
    • Israëls, M., & Waldman, L. A. (Eds.) (2013). Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors. (Villa I Tatti; No. 29). The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. [details]

    2012

    2011

    • Israëls, M. (2011). The Berensons, Photography, and the Discovery of Sassetta. In C. Caraffa (Ed.), Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History (pp. 157-168). Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH.

    2010

    2009

    • Israëls, M. (2009). Painting for a Preacher: Sassetta and Bernardino da Siena. In M. Israëls (Ed.), Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece (Vol. 1, pp. 121-139). (Villa I Tatti; No. 25). Primavera Press.
    • Israëls, M. (2009). Polyptychs without Painting: Sassetta, Piero della Francesca, and the Rejection of Unpainted Altarpieces. In M. Israëls (Ed.), Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece (Vol. 1, pp. 243-253). (Villa I Tatti; No. 25). Primavera Press.
    • Israëls, M. (2009). The Reconstruction of Sassetta’s Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece. In Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece (Vol. 1, pp. 161-209). (Villa I Tatti; No. 25). Primavera Press.
    • Israëls, M. (Ed.) (2009). Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece. (Villa I Tatti; No. 25). Primavera Press.

    2008

    • Israëls, M. (2008). Al cospetto della città: Sodoma a Porta Pispini e la tradizione pittorica delle porte urbiche di Siena. In M. Ascheri, G. Mazzoni, & F. Nevola (Eds.), L’ultimo secolo della repubblica di Siena: Arti, cultura e società (pp. 367-389). Siena: Accademia Senese degli Intronati.
    • Israëls, M. (2008). An Angel at Huis Bergh: Clues to the Structure and Function of Duccio’s Maestà. In A. de Vries (Ed.), Voyages of Discovery in the Collections of Huis Bergh (pp. 122–133, 175–180). 's Heerenberg: Stichting Huis Bergh.

    2007

    • Israëls, M. (2007). Absence and Resemblance: Early Images of Bernardino da Siena and the Issue of Portraiture (With a New Proposal for Sassetta). I Tatti Studies, 11, 77-114. https://doi.org/10.2307/20111823

    2006

    • Israëls, M. (2006). Altars on the Street: The Wool Guild, the Carmelites and the Feast of Corpus Domini in Siena (1356–1456). Renaissance Studies, 20(2), 180-200. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24416849

    2003

    2001

    • Israëls, M. (2001). Sassetta’s Arte della Lana Altar-piece and the Cult of Corpus Domini in Siena. The Burlington Magazine, 143(1182), 532-543. https://www.jstor.org/stable/889265

    1998

    • Israëls, M. (1998). New Documents for Sassetta and Sano di Pietro at the Porta Romana, Siena. The Burlington Magazine, 140(1144), 436-444. https://www.jstor.org/stable/887931

    2024

    • Brüggen Israëls, M., & Silver, N. (2024). Piero della Francesca: Il polittico agostiniano riunito. Dario Cimorelli editore. [details]
    • Brüggen Israëls, M., & Silver, N. (2024). Piero della Francesca: The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited. Dario Cimorelli editore. [details]
    • Brüggen Israëls, M., & Silver, N. (2024). Heaven on Earth: Piero della Francesca's Augustinian Polyptych. In M. Brüggen Israëls, & N. Silver (Eds.), Piero della Francesca: The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited (pp. 18-61). Dario Cimorelli editore.
    • Brüggen Israëls, M., & Silver, N. (2024). Piero della Francesca: The Augustinian Polyptych, 1468-69. Catalogue of Surviving Panels. In Piero della Francesca: The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited (pp. 98-211). Dario Cimorelli editore.

    2020

    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2020). Fabbrica e funzionamento delle pale bifronti tra Duecento e Quattrocento. In G. E. Solberg (Ed.), Taddeo di Bartolo (pp. 89-101, 322-325). Silvana Editoriale. [details]
    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2020). La pala di Piero della Francesca per il mausoleo di Federico di Montefeltro. 1492: Rivista della Fondazione Piero della Francesca, 9-13(1-2), 63-85. [details]
    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (Guest ed.), & Magnani, S. (Guest ed.) (2020). Omaggio a James R. Banker. 1492: Rivista della Fondazione Piero della Francesca, 9-13(1-2).

    2019

    2018

    2017

    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2017). Madonne dell’Umiltà monumentali nelle Marche tardo-medievali: committenze confraternali. In B. Cleri, & M. Minardi (Eds.), Pittura del Trecento nelle Marche: Aprofondimenti e nuovi orizzonti di ricerca (pp. 297-328). Editoriale Umbra. [details]

    2012

    • Israëls, M. (2012). La decorazione pittorica dell’Antiporto di Camollia, di Porta Romana e di Porta Pispini a Siena. In E. Pellegrini (Ed.), Fortificare con arte: Mura, porte e fortezze di Siena nella storia (pp. 200-219). Siena: Betti.

    2008

    • Israëls, M. (2008). L’Assunzione del Sassetta e la fortuna rinascimentale del Trecento: un caso senese? In La Presenza del Passato: Political Ideas e modelli culturali nella storia e nell’arte senese (pp. 225-238). Siena: Cantagalli.

    2005

    • Israëls, M. (2005). Un segno di alleanza: La Natività della Vergine del Maestro dell’Osservanza (1437–1439). In L. Bellosi, G. Fattorini, & G. Paolucci (Eds.), Capolavori ritrovati in terra di Siena: Itinerari d’autunno nei Musei Senesi (pp. 16-27). Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana.

    2020

    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2020). Waar muziek was. Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep. [details]

    2016

    • Brüggen Israëls, M. (2016). Franciscus in de vroege Italiaanse kunst. In F. Bosman, K. van Dooren, G. P. F., M. Brüggen Israëls, H. van Os, B. Roest, & E. Verheggen (Eds.), Franciscus van Assisi (2e ed., pp. 64-93). Utrecht : Museum Catharijneconvent. [details]

    Others

    • van der Velden, H. (organiser), Brüggen Israëls, M. (participant), de Koomen, A. (participant), dr. Sellink, M. P. A. (participant), Lammertse, F. (participant), Falkenburg, R. (participant), Meganck, T. (participant), Tamis, D. (participant), Tilanus, F. (participant) & van der Velden, H. (participant) (22-3-2023). Pieter Bruegels Beeldenstorm, Amsterdam. Pieter Bruegel was de laatste grootmeester van een traditie die begon met Jan van Eyck en diens tijdgenoten. Bruegels werk is vooral geworteld in de (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van der Velden, H. (chair), Ferente, S. (organiser), Brüggen Israëls, M. (organiser), Damen, M. (organiser) & Koopmans, J. (organiser) (17-12-2021). Reflection - POSTPONED, Amsterdam. This event has been postponed to spring 2022, due to the present Covid situation!The law of reflection states that the angle of incidence equals the (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van der Velden, H. (chair), Ferente, S. (organiser), Brüggen Israëls, M. (organiser), Damen, M. (organiser) & Koopmans, J. (organiser) (17-12-2021). Reflection Online: Totentanz. Totentanz is an animation opera produced by the Dutch stage director Wim Trompert, based on Bernt Notke’s Dance of Death, formerly in Lübeck, painted (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research-school-medieval-studies/education/medieval-studies-day/medieval-studies-day-postponed
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