17th-Century Flemish

Sinn und Sinnlichkeit. Das Flämische Stilleben: 1550-1680

By Karl Schütz, Ute Kleinmann, Konrad Renger, Alexander Wied, Arnout Balis, Stephan Brakensiek, Uwe Wieczorek, Klaus Ertz and Wolfgang Prohaska

[Cat. exh. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, March 18 - July 21, 2002; Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen, Villa Hügel, Essen, September 1 - December 8, 2002.] Lingen: Luca Verlag, 2002. 402 pp, ISBN 3-932641-49-4

Review published April 2003

My first impression of the exhibition, which I saw in Essen, was that it was unusually large and impressive for a thematically-focused show (126 works). It comprised eleven sections correspond ing to [...] Read More

La Almoneda del siglo. Relaciones art’sticas entre España y Gran Bretaña, 1604-1655

By Jonathan Brown and John Elliott (eds.)

Exhibition catalogue, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2002. 315 pp, more than 65 color plates, numerous b&w illus. ISBN 84-8480-031-8.

The catalog also appeared in English under the title The Sale of the Century: Artistic Relations between Spain and Great Britain, 1604-1655, New Haven and London (Yale University Press), 2002. ISBN 0-0009-761-1

Review published November 2002

The 'sale of the century' refers to the dispersal of the collection of Charles I of England, one of the most beautiful art collections at the beginning of the seventeenth century, in the [...] Read More

Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-Century Portraiture

By Emilie Gordenker

Turnhout: Brepols, 2001. 297 pp, 12 col. pls, 138 b&w illus. ISBN 2-503-50880-4

Review published May 2002

As Emilie Gordenker says, the history of dress has often in the past been regarded as a suitable occupation for amateurs or, perish the thought, as ‘women’s work.’ But now at last it has moved into [...] Read More

Van Dyck 1599-1999. Conjectures and Reflections

By Hans Vlieghe, ed.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2001. 312 pp, 206 b&w illus. ISBN 2-503-51144-9

Review published May 2002

This volume contains twenty papers which were either delivered or written for the colloquium held in Antwerp at the time of the various exhibitions devoted to Van Dyck in 1999. They cover a wide range [...] Read More

Höfisches Mäzenatentum in Brüssel. Kardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586) und die Erzherzöge Albrecht (1559-1621) und Isabella (1566-1633)

By Claudia Banz

(Berliner Schriften zur Kunst XII), Berlin: Gebrüder Mann Verlag, 2000. 220 pp, 51 b&w illus. ISBN 3-7861-2309-8

Review published April 2001

Claudia Banz, Höfisches Mäzenatentum in Brüssel. Kardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586) und die Erzherzöge Albrecht (1559-1621) und Isabella (1566-1633)(Berliner Schriften zur Kunst XII), [...] Read More

David III Ryckaert: A Seventeenth-Century Flemish Painter of Peasant Scenes (Pictura Nova, VI)

By Bernadette Van Haute

Turnhout: Brepols, 1999. 415 pp, 191 b&w illus. ISBN 2-503-50720-

Review published April 2001

It must be counted ill luck to be dubbed ‘the third’, when Senior never existed as a painter (he was probably a decorator of sculpture), and Junior, although a recorded master in the guild of St Luke, [...] Read More

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