SIXTEN RINGBOM
ICON TO NARRATIVE
The Rise of the Dramatic Close-Up in Fifteenth-Century Devotional Painting

Originally published in 1965 in Acta Academiae Aboensis, Ser. A, Vol. 31, nr. 2, 2nd edition, enlarged and augmented with a postscript 1983.
1984. 241 pp. text and 196 ills. on 48 plates
ISBN 90-7028-814-1

This book does yeoman service in moving toward a needed reintegration of the European devotional art of North and South in the fifteenth century. Although Antal, Berliner, Gombrich, Meiss, Mesnil, Panofsky, Warburg and many others have, through their own rich intellectual curiosity, knowledge, and art historical resources, done much to bring together the cruelly severed art of the Quattrocento, much still remains to be done. Ringbom's book, studded with invaluable iconographical references has achieved more in this respect than a convey of Council of Europe artistic extravaganzas.
Colin Eisler in Art Bulletin, LI, 1969, p. 186-188.