New York, The Frick Collection, June 18 – August 31, 2025.
Exh. cat. by Robert Fucci. New York, Rizzoli Electa in association with The Frick Collection, 2025. 96 pp, 60 color illus. ISBN 978-0-8478-4594-1.
Published in conjunction with the special focus exhibition marking the long-awaited reopening of the Frick Collection, Robert Fucci’s Vermeer’s Love Letters reflects the aims of the show it [...] Read More
New Haven, CT – London, Yale University Press, 2022. 208 pp, 98 color and 17 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0300259117.
Vermeer’s so-called “Little Street”, which gives this striking book its name and graces its cover, depicts fragments of two housefronts linked by adjoining courtyards. Rooftops cluster in the [...] Read More
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, November 9, 2024 – February 23, 2025.
Exh. cat. by Charles Noble, Gregory Rubinstein and Christian Tico Seifert. Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, 2024. 120 pp, 140 color illus. ISBN 9781911054672.
After a period of relative quiet, the last few years have seen a flurry of exhibitions of Northern European drawings across Britain, with more expected in 2026. These exhibitions have showcased the [...] Read More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 240 pp, incl. 33 color & 88 b/w illus.
ISBN 9780691238807 (hardback); 9780691240053 (ebook).
Monuments are surprisingly shaky. Usually built to last and designed to convey an unambiguous message, the monument’s capacity to provoke responses that range from boredom to hatred creates the [...] Read More
Exh. cat. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, October 20, 2023 – January 21, 2024; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, February 24 – May 26, 2024. Antwerp: Hannibal Books and KMSKA, 2023. 191 pp, 136 color illus. ISBN 978 94 6466 664 9.
English and Dutch editions (English reviewed here)
As psychologists have long known, there is no visual experience more powerful than coming face-to-face with another human being. It is not surprising, then, that human physiognomy has occupied artists [...] Read More
Munich, Alte Pinakothek, November 26, 204 – March 16, 2025; Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, April 13 – July 27, 2025; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, August 23 – December 7, 2025. Exh. cat. edited by Robert Schindler, Bernd Ebert, and Anna C. Knaap. With contributions by Marianne Berardi, Charles C. Davis, Lieke van Deinsen, Josephina de Fouw, Nouchka de Keyser, Jorinda Koenen, Bert van de Roemer, and Katharina Schmidt-Loske. Boston, MA, MFA Publications, 2025. 248 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 978-0-87846-899-7.
Every historian of Dutch art knows of Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) but few know much about her. Flower painter, daughter of the famed anatomist Frederik Ruysch… and there it usually stops. There has not [...] Read More