New York and London: Phaidon, 2014. 399 pp, 415 illus. ISBN: 978-07148-6755-7
It is impossible to imagine our understanding of Frans Hals without Seymour Slive’s monumental contributions. His three-volume study published in 1970 and 1974 remains the most important catalogue [...] Read More
The Hague: Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde 2013. Distributed by Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum. 57 pp, with numerous illus. ISBN 978-90-805689-7-6
The brief publication under review, richly illustrated in color with drawn and painted portraits, coats of arms and seals, and furnished with family trees and transcripts of archival documents, came [...] Read More
Ed. by Johann Kräftner. Exhibition “Northern Baroque Splendor. The Hohenbuchau Collection from the Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, The Princely Collections, Vienna,” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, September 20, 2014 – April 12, 2015; Cincinnati Art Museum, June 27 – September 20, 2015, as “Rubens to Ruisdael,” with the same subtitle. Vienna: Liechtenstein Museum and Christian Brandstätter Verlag, 2011. 494 pp, profuse illus. ISBN 978-85033-572-0 (English edition)
The splendid exhibition now at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (and this summer at the Cincinnati Art Museum), presents sixty-four of the ninety-seven paintings that are published in Peter [...] Read More
Cat. exh. Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen, March 13 – June 22, 2014; Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, July 12 – October 5, 2014. London: Paul Holberton Publishing 2014. 200 pp., 166 illus., some in color. ISBN 978-1-907372-67-4
Books that focus attention on unheralded masters of talent and historical significance are rarities these days. For that reason alone, Rudi Ekkart’s Deaf, Dumb & Brilliant deserves special notice. [...] Read More
Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2014. 359 pp, 20 b&w, 392 color illus. ISBN 978-94-91196-60-7
This lively book examines the history of critical responses to Rembrandt from the artist's own time to the present day. All ten contributors are Dutch, and the text was designed primarily for students [...] Read More
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press 2012. 222 pp, 56 illus. ISBN 978-0-271-05061-4
In her important new book, Angela Vanhaelen argues that seventeenth-century Dutch church interior paintings address a particular moment in history – one of transition – in which the Dutch attempted to [...] Read More