16th Century

Lambert Lombard: Peintre de la Renaissance, Liège 1505/06-1566. Essais interdisciplinaires et catalogue de l’exposition

By Godelieve Denhaene (ed.)

[Cat. exh. Salle Saint-Georges, Musée de l’Art Wallon, Liège, April 21 – August 6, 2006.] (Institut royal du Patrimoine Artistique de Belgique, Scientia Artis, 3). Brussels: KIK/IRPA, 2006. 534 pp, 480 illus. No ISBN. Also available in Dutch

Review published April 2007

This excellent, lavishly illustrated catalogue is Godelieve Denhaene’s latest study to expand our understanding of Lambert Lombard, the mid-sixteenth-century Liègeois antiquarian, draftsman, painter, [...] Read More

The Early Modern Painter-Etcher

By Michael Cole (ed.)

University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery, April 15 – June 11, 2006; John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, July 1 – August 19, 2006; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, September 1 – October 29, 2006]. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 189 pp, 152 b&w illus. ISBN 0-251-02905-6

Review published April 2007

The Early Modern Painter-Etcher is the catalogue of an exhibition originating at the Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and traveling to the John and Mable Ringling [...] Read More

Paintings of the 16th-Century Netherlandish Masters. Slovak Art Collections

By Ingrid Ciulisová

Bratislava: VEDA, 2006. 216 pp, 31 b&w illus. (each work). ISBN 13: 978-80-224-0928-5; 10: 80-224-0928-6

Review published April 2007

Published with assistance of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. A decade ago, students of Netherlandish art were greatly assisted by the publication by Olga Kotková of a Summary Catalogue of the works [...] Read More

ExtravagAnt! A Forgotten Chapter of Antwerp Painting, 1500-1530. Catalogue

By Peter van den Brink et al.

Edited by Kristin Lohse Belkin and Nico van Hout. [Cat. exh. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, October 15 – December 31, 2005; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, January 22 – April 9, 2006.] Wommelgem: Blondé 2005. 235 pp, 93 entries. ISBN (English) 9-085860-067. Also available in Dutch

Review published April 2007

The second part of this review will appear in November 2007. The HNA Review of Books should probably review more exhibitions and their catalogues, the more so when an important, if neglected, major [...] Read More

Mayken Verhulst (1518-1599). The Turkish Manners of an Artistic Lady

By Jan Op de Beeck

Mechelen: Museum Het Zotte Kunstkabinet, 2005. 114 pp, 54 b&w illus. ISBN 90-9019982-9

Review published November 2006

Regular readers of this Review might recognize the whimsically named Museum Het Zotte Kunstkabinett from its earlier exhibition, De Zotte Schilders (2003), catalogue by Eric De Bruyn and Jan Op de [...] Read More

Hubert Gerhard und Carlo di Cesare del Palagio: Bronzeplastiker der Spätrenaissance

By Dorothea Diemer

Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2004. Vol. I, 420 pp, 273 b&w illus; Vol. II, Catalogue, 544 pp, 312 plates, color and b&w. ISBN 3-87157-204-7

Review published November 2006

Dorothea Diemer's tandem monograph on Hubert Gerhard and Carlo di Cesare del Palagio, two sculptors working at the late sixteenth-century court of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria, reaches far beyond the [...] Read More

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century