16th Century

Peasant Scenes and Landscapes. The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market

By Larry Silver

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 392 pp, 152 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3868-6

Review published November 2007

The book opens with an introduction of notable original methodology (‘”C ultural selection” and the Origins of Pictorial Species,’ pp. 1-15), which, in reference to George Kubler, invokes archaeology [...] Read More

Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen/ Antwerp Royal Museum Annual 2004/05

By Paul Vandenbroeck, ed.

Guest editors Maximiliaan Martens and Peter van den Brink, with text editor Kristin Belkin. 376 pp. ISSN 0770/3104

Review published November 2007

Investigating ‘a forgotten chapter of Antwerp painting, 1500-1530,’ the exhibition ExtravagAnt!, shared in 2005-06 by the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, [...] Read More

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

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

16th Century