The Systematic Catalogue series documenting the rich collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington continues to grow since its inception in the 1980s. Exactly twenty years have passed since [...] Read More
17th-Century Flemish
Lives of Rubens
The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible [...] Read More
Rubens. A Master in the Making
In July 2002, the art world gasped when Sotheby's knocked down to Lord Thomson of Fleet an old master painting for the unheard-of sum of almost $76 million (£49.5 million) – a financial league in [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. A Complete Catalogue
This catalogue, dedicated to the memory of Frans Baudouin, is a great achievement. Teréz Gerszi, the doyenne of Dutch and Flemish drawings at the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum and now curator emerita , is to [...] Read More
Van Dyck. A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings
Those wishing to survey the variety and breadth of the oeuvre of Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) or provide a handy reference in a footnote have hitherto reached for Gustav Glück, Van Dyck, des Meisters [...] Read More
Peter Paul Rubens, The Drawings
For those too young to have seen the great round of Rubens exhibitions staged in the 400th anniversary year of 1977, the remarkable 2004-05 exhibition, shown in Vienna and New York, was the first [...] Read More